bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2018-11-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Bernhard Voelker wrote: At least for 'yes', one could argument that the program should only care about the (GNU) long options --help and --version if they are the only argument, and take everything else as the string(s) to be output Why is the situation different for 'yes' than for other comman

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2018-11-24 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/24/18 1:52 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 22/11/18 10:09, Uko Kokņevičs wrote: >> So I was messing around with `yes`, and after running `yes --help me` it >> output this: >> >>> yes: unrecognized option '--help' >>> Try 'yes --help' for more information. >> >> After a bit of more testing of