Bug 1294867

Summary: gawk -h exits with ecode of 1 and raises "gawk: option requires an argument -- h" warning while --help works as expected
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: frantisek.reznicek <frantisek.reznicek>
Component: gawkAssignee: David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: deekej, jchaloup
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Description frantisek.reznicek 2015-12-30 19:06:09 UTC
Description of problem:

gawk -h exists with ecode of 1 and raises "gawk: option requires an argument -- h" warning while --help works as expected

There are two problems:
a] gawk -h exists with ecode of 1
b] gawk -h raises "gawk: option requires an argument -- h" warning

Both problems appear on F22 gawk version gawk-4.1.1-6.fc22.x86_64
Just problem a] is appearing on RHEL6.x gawk-3.1.7-10.el6_7.3.x86_64

Note gawk trunk/master from today (GNU Awk 4.1.60, API: 1.2) does not sufer from any of those problems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gawk-4.1.1-6.fc22.x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6_7.3.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gawk -h; echo $?
2. gawk --help; echo $?
3.

Actual results:
Help (-h) is recognized as valid operation, but fails with ecode of 1
Help (--help) is recognized as valid operation and passes.

Expected results:
Help (-h|--help) should be recognized as valid operation and pass.

Additional info:


[f_ii@localhost ~]$ rpm -q gawk
gawk-4.1.1-6.fc22.x86_64
[f_ii@localhost ~]$ gawk -h;echo $?
gawk: option requires an argument -- h
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
...
Examples:
        gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file
        gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd
1
[f_ii@localhost ~]$ gawk --help;echo $?
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...
...
Examples:
        gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file
        gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd
0

Comment 1 David Kaspar // Dee'Kej 2016-05-31 16:24:08 UTC
Hello FrantiĊĦek,

this issue is already fixed in F23. It won't be fixed for F22, because it's almost EOL for F22.

Best regards,

Dee'Kej