Subject: Bug#3204: echo(1) options not working

From: Dominik Kubla <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:59:59 +0200

Try /bin/echo --help!

Echo is normally invoked as a bash-builtin...

Dominik

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From: Richard Kaszeta <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 07:56:30 -0500

>root:/root# echo --help
>--help
>root:/root# echo --version
>--version

You are getting the 'echo' built into your shell.
'/bin/echo --version' works fine here...

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From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:58:16 -0700 (PDT)

Package: shellutils
Version: 1.12-5

>From the echo(1) man page:

   OPTIONS
       When GNU echo is invoked with exactly  one  argument,  the
       following options are recognized:

       --help Print  a	usage message on standard output and exit
	      successfully.

       --version
	      Print version information on standard  output  then
	      exit successfully.

However......

root:/root# echo --help
--help

[email-masked] (Bill Mitchell)