Adam Tuja wrote:
You may want to remove --help-long as it's redundant whith `-hh'.
I have already a first attempt at a patch. I'm implementing this reusing the
--verbose option. Now --help shows only usage and options as copied below.
The long help is shown with '-v -h' and the man page remains as before. Is
this what you want?
Compression level is more important than help in case of compressor.
Help is already given if user reads that screen so they don't need to be
informed about it again.
There is a good reason for putting --help and --version at the top: the man
page is generated from the --help output, and these options are the first
thing that someone new to lzip want to see when reading the man page.
https://fossies.org/linux/lzip/doc/lzip.1
Best regards,
Antonio.
Output of 'lzip --help':
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Short help. Use '-vh' for full help.
Usage: lzip [options] [files]
Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit
-a, --trailing-error exit with error status if trailing data
-b, --member-size=<bytes> set member size limit of multimember files
-c, --stdout write to standard output, keep input files
-d, --decompress decompress, test compressed file integrity
-f, --force overwrite existing output files
-F, --recompress force re-compression of compressed files
-k, --keep keep (don't delete) input files
-l, --list print (un)compressed file sizes
-m, --match-length=<bytes> set match length limit in bytes [36]
-o, --output=<file> write to <file>, keep input files
-q, --quiet suppress all messages
-s, --dictionary-size=<bytes> set dictionary size limit in bytes [8 MiB]
-S, --volume-size=<bytes> set volume size limit in bytes
-t, --test test compressed file integrity
-v, --verbose be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)
-0 .. -9 set compression level [default 6]
--loose-trailing allow trailing data seeming corrupt header
