No.
• GNU --long-options have nothing to do with a Unix program.
• A flag to display the version is not historically customary in Unix programs.
The adoption of -V (not -v which is verbose) is recent and not normally used.
• “mksh -x” is the same as running “set -x” in the shell, which means that the
namespace for these options is defined by, mostly, POSIX/SUSv4, on which we
will not infringe for something like that.
The Android user would just type “set“, or “echo $KSH_VERSION”.
The Debian or *buntu user would just type “dpkg-query -W mksh” or (more
common but cuts off version numbers) “dpkg -l mksh”.
** Changed in: mksh
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: mksh (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: mksh (Debian)
Status: New => Opinion
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