Re: [sr #111051] New commands: `-h`, `--help`

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
    From:        anonymous <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org>
    Message-ID:  <20240418-070332.sv0.619367@savannah.gnu.org>

  | Arguments are given after the program name and are used to modify the
  | program's operation. E.g.: usage:
  |
  | somecommand --help

But when I did that, the system said "-bash: somecommand: command not found" ??

  | If you need more information about the command you can use:
  |
  | man somecommand

And when I tried that it said "man: no entry for somecommand in the manual" ??




There's only so much that it is possible to do to help people who
know nothing, and who should be starting from some kind of tutorial
(a book, paper or online; a class somewhere; ...).   There's no end
to what would need to be added to explain everything to someone who
knows nothing - and even attempting that, even to the extent suggested
here, just annoys people who already know they can pipe into more (or
less) to paginate output (etc), and just want the basic info ("just
what is the option which does whatver?" and get offended by being treated
like a novice all the time (and wasting their time, and making everything
bigger than needed to do so).

kre

ps: bash could probably lose the "be a login shell" '-' from argv[0][0]
for error messages.   It isn't helpful.