--help - Standards, why follow them? - devRant

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NeedsMoreDivs

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I don't think I've had this happen yet, but I have wondered about it happening.
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devs

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6y

@NeedsMoreDivs if a program does not take any arguments, it might just execute, rather than failing and saying it doesn’t recognise the argument
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Parzi

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I try "-?" first due to DOS usage. I do this even in linux.

nuker --target=user --method=/dev/chair_taser
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kevinye32

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6y

ctrl-c, panic!
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LuPaw

604

6y

„Man“ up and it won‘t happen again :P
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devios1

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6y

Shouldn’t the command you want to look up come after —help?

Oh you mean the whole program. Got it.
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Pogromist

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6y

I try using -h -? --help (\? \h \help on windows) and help text doesn't show up.
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NeedsMoreDivs

577

6y

@Parzi hahahaha
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seraphimsystems

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6y

Or a Cisco 800 series router, where the ? Operator makes it show the help for whatever you typed up to that point without pressing enter
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Parzi

8833

6y

@Pogromist /? /h /help*
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Pogromist

2500

6y

@Parzi Oh 😶
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Parzi

8833

6y

@Pogromist in windows or dos, \ is for directories, / and - are for switches (and they're both usually interchangeable)
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Pogromist

2500

6y

@Parzi yeah I know, just made mistake and switches are called attributes.

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