Steven Schubiger wrote a script, found in the repo's util/paramchecks.pl (not found in tarballs) that checks for just this sort of situation (and others). Running it produces a few false positives (such as "--no", and yeah, I'd consider --htmlify and --no-htmlify to be legitimately undocumented), and also several additional undocumented options that should probably be doc'd.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Tomas Hozza <tho...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello. > > We at Red Hat did an inspection of wget-1.14 source, man page and > wget usage (--help) and discovered following errors: > > Missing in man present in usage: > --accept-regex > --preserve-permissions > --regex-type > --reject-regex > > Options undocumented at all: > --backups > --no-backups > > Following two options are not documented probably because they > are still defective: > > --htmlify -> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23095 > --no-htmlify -> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23096 > > > I also created public Bug on Savannah > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?38835.
