On 9/19/25 7:26 AM, Andreas Kähäri wrote:
The bug here seems to be that the "--help" long option provokes abehaviour from some built-ins that is not documented.
Such as?
To get the help text, one should use "help builtin_name" (this also works for built-ins like "[" and "echo" that do not recognize "--help"). This is the point of the "help" built-in.
This is true, but the --help option is part of the GNU coding standards.
(I drew the line at adding --version to every builtin.)
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