| Summary: | Send --help to stdout, not stderr | ||
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| Product: | Portable OpenSSH | Reporter: | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto> |
| Component: | ssh | Assignee: | Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | CLOSED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | dtucker |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 5.3p1 | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
ssh(1) does not have a --help option (nor any other long options for that matter). Sending output to stderr when given an invalid option is entirely reasonable. See BSD cp(1), ls(1) etc. Mass move of bugs RESOLVED->CLOSED following the release of openssh-5.5p1 |
This can be expected to appear in stderr: $ ssh -8 sh: illegal option -- 8 usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] But this should go to stdout, not stderr: $ ssh --help | less Please chnage the -help option to send text to stdout, not stderr. See GNU cp(1), ls(1) etc.