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Documention error for true, false
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Keith Thompson |
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Documention error for true, false |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:37:10 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
I'm using sh-utils 2.0 under SunOS 5.7.
The documentation for the "false" command (excerpt from doc/sh-utils.texi)
says:
] @code{false} ignores @emph{all} command line arguments, even @samp{--help}
] and @samp{--version}, since to do otherwise would change expected
] behavior that some programmers may be relying on.
Likewise, the documentation for "true" says:
] @code{true} ignores @emph{all} command line arguments, even @samp{--help}
] and @samp{--version}, since to do otherwise would change expected
] behavior that some programmers may be relying on.
In fact, this is true only if the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT
is set.
Also, unlike most other GNU commands, true and false recognize --help
or --version *only* if it's the only argument, and only if it's spelled
out in full. I won't quite argue that this is a bug, but I suggest it
should be documented.
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