On 8/10/25 5:17 PM, Wiley Young wrote:
It seems like using that syntax would indicate an intention to use the binary.
This is faulty reasoning. All the bash builtins, except for `:', `echo',
`true', `false', and `test' (for obvious reasons), accept `--help'. It's
part of the GNU coding standards.
This is consistent across systems, even those not using coreutils.
$ type -P kill
/bin/kill
$ /bin/kill --version
usage: kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
kill -l [exit_status]
kill -signal_name pid ...
kill -signal_number pid ...
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