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[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But also

mysterytool --help
mysterytool: unrecognized option: '-'

ok then...

mysterytool -h
mysterytool: unrecognized option: 'h'

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children) 
mysterytool --help

   ‘--help’ unrecognized option, -h for help

I will burn this motherfucker to the ground

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Or the opposite:

mysterytool -h

     -h unrecognized option, --help for help

Both need to burn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes mysterytool -H works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

mysterytool -haaaaaalp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Some of the older programs and scripts I've seen in the codebases I help maintain have -u or -?. If I have an excuse to do any changes to them I'll usually change them to use -h and --help.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

And

mysterytool -h

mysterytool: try our info page that requires a custom viewer because gnu is better than standards. And there is no regular man page because fuck you

[–] cyanarchy 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If I can't get it with tldr mysterytoolafter all that, then clearly the developer intended it to stay a mystery.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago 
strings mysterytool

As a last resort haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It could be worse. The documentation could be online, only accessible through a paywall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Okay, Oracle.