`false --help --version' prints nothing [Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Jim Meyering (meyering@ascend.com)
27 Mar 1999 17:00:45 -0600

Thanks for mentioning that.
But it's not a bug in itself.
I've changed the --help output (removed `...') to reflect that only
one of the options is recognized at a time.

Meelis Roos <mroos@tartu.cyber.ee> writes:
| >> Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat.
|
| AS> well, its a 395 byte shell script that does the same thing as exit 1,
| AS> but it's cute :) Surely you want to know the version of your lies... :)
|
| It caught me as a surprise to see that true and false are such a bloats.
| And even such a simple program as false has a bug: try
| false --help --version
|
| Not that this is a serious bug ;)

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