crispy_kilt@feddit.de to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoAnd no man pagefeddit.deimagemessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up11.26K
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minus-squarequpada@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up47·1 year agoBut also mysterytool --help mysterytool: unrecognized option: '-' ok then… mysterytool -h mysterytool: unrecognized option: 'h'
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-21 year agomysterytool --help ‘--help’ unrecognized option, -h for help I will burn this motherfucker to the ground
minus-squareMelody Fwygon@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-21 year agoOr the opposite: mysterytool -h -h unrecognized option, --help for help Both need to burn.
minus-squareiguessthislldo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSome of the older programs and scripts I’ve seen in the codebases I help maintain have -u or -?. If I have an excuse to do any changes to them I’ll usually change them to use -h and --help.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up26·edit-21 year agoAnd mysterytool -h mysterytool: try our info page that requires a custom viewer because gnu is better than standards. And there is no regular man page because fuck you
minus-squarecyanarchy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 year agoIf I can’t get it with tldr mysterytoolafter all that, then clearly the developer intended it to stay a mystery.
minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agostrings mysterytool As a last resort haha
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt could be worse. The documentation could be online, only accessible through a paywall.
But also
mysterytool --helpmysterytool: unrecognized option: '-'ok then…
mysterytool -hmysterytool: unrecognized option: 'h'mysterytool --help ‘--help’ unrecognized option, -h for helpI will burn this motherfucker to the ground
Or the opposite:
mysterytool -h -h unrecognized option, --help for helpBoth need to burn.
Sometimes
mysterytool -Hworksmysterytool -haaaaaalpSome of the older programs and scripts I’ve seen in the codebases I help maintain have
-uor-?. If I have an excuse to do any changes to them I’ll usually change them to use-hand--help.And
mysterytool -hmysterytool: try our info page that requires a custom viewer because gnu is better than standards. And there is no regular man page because fuck youIf I can’t get it with
tldr mysterytoolafter all that, then clearly the developer intended it to stay a mystery.As a last resort haha
It could be worse. The documentation could be online, only accessible through a paywall.
Okay, Oracle.
Oh, they do it, too?