Bug 1376801

Summary: manpage lists wrong flags for 'echo' command
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mohammed Sadiq <redhat>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
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Version: 24CC: admiller, jamartis, kdudka, kzak, ooprala, ovasik, p, twaugh
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Description Mohammed Sadiq 2016-09-16 12:26:52 UTC 
the manpage of 'echo' command lists --help and --version, which is wrong.

The GNU info page of 'echo' specifically says that '--' is treated just like any other character.
So manpage should be updated to reflect this change.
Comment 1 Pádraig Brady 2016-09-16 13:55:11 UTC 
The man page is for coreutils, while you're probably using your shell builtin echo. To get the coreutils version use `env echo`. Better again is to use printf rather than echo as the latter is non portable and awkward in many regards. Also to get help for the shell echo, use `help echo`.  I understand the new version of bash will output this automatically output the equivalent of `help $builtin` with `$builtin --help`, though I expect echo may be different in this regard