On Thursday 18 May 2006 19:52, Vincent Danen wrote:
> And it's also extremely long.  I often do things like "foo --help
> 2>&1|grep something" in order to find the option I'm looking for (ie. i
> might like to do "exim --help 2>&1|grep queue" to find out all the
> options to manipulate the queue).

PAGER=cat man exim | grep whatever.

Or simply /whatever if you use a PAGER such as less, and then you have 
context.

> The fact that all exim tells me is "options and/or arguments control
> what it does when it is called" is... well... painfully obvious without
> being helpful at all.

Would you really want hundreds of lines of --help output?  Some of the Gentoo 
portage commands do this, and I find it irritating.  Simple fact is, exim has 
many many options.

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