-v
-V
-version
--version
version

Or the microsoft way:

/?
/version

literally just did all of this in flutter.

Turns out it was --version

welcome to the hell of our own making 😒

https://devrant.com/rants/1601503

There's a special place in hell for people who use "-version" instead of "--version"

@Hazarth And another one for those using `version`

(looking at you, `kubeadm` and `kubectl`!!)

similar to why elseif / else if / elif / wtf is spelled differently in different languages

@fraktalisman else if means there is no special keyword. Which language uses elseif?

@happygimp0 I guess PHP and VB at least?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...

https://w3schools.com/php/...

@netikras apparently you can use elseif both with and without space in PHP, because of course you can.

And then, to add to @fraktalisman's list, some weirdos use elsif.

@gcavalcante8808 Actually the IBM way - which is also why MS had to use \ as directory separator. IBM had tools that took CLI switches with /, and IBM didn't want to fix their shit.

Oh This is a nice piece of knowledge for sure, thanks for sharing

@gcavalcante8808 And the reason why IBM already had their CLI switches was that MS-DOS didn't even have directories before 2.0. :-)

Interestingly, it's no accident that MS-DOS over time got some half-assed UNIX flavour. That's because MS was one of the largest UNIX companies with their Xenix and intended MS-DOS as "single user Xenix", eventually planning to make MS-DOS upward compatible with Xenix.

Yes, MS saw Unix as the future of PCs. In the second half of the 80s, MS was the largest Unix companies by numbers - more machines ran Xenix than all other Unixes combined.

I asked a question about this on StackOverflow once and it got deleted:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

"Oh dear, we wouldn't want to help people try and understand this mess, let's just delete the question!"

.exit
/exit
.quit
/quit
Escape :q
Escape :wq
Escape :q!

So fuckin relatable man, I was just doin this today 😂

Is that an interview question? Okay, top to bottom:

3.6.0
3.6.0 LTS Oct 6 2021
the flag “-version” does not exist
3.6.0
cannot find command “version”

@netikras you can look an almost anything made in Go. The stdlib provides flag handling like that. Double dash is also always valid though.

@hjk101 well, kubeadm didn't like dashes

--virgin

@AmyShackles

exit()

quit()

^D (ctrl-d)

@AmyShackles And don't forget:

<ESC> :qa

<ESC> :qa!

<ESC> :wqa

<ESC> :wqa!

For all other applications, ^D works on most places and is the fastest.