replication of stuff in /usr/gnu

[Joerg Schilling]

Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote:


> > Is there anything we can do to clean this up, and to avoid it in the future?
>
>   (Although you find --help and --version pointless, many *ix users now
>   expect commands to process these options.)

-help did exist long before GNU, it has been first introduced by the UNIX clone
UNOS in 1982. At that time, the long option aware option parser getargs() has 
been introduced and _all_ avalable utilities have been modified to support 
-help.

-version looks like a GNU invention from around 1995 or even later.

I did alredy propose here to enhance all Solaris utilities to support the two 
options for convenience.

Jörg

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