Bug 1388769

Summary: RFE: open-vm-tools utilities should recognize -h option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component: open-vm-toolsAssignee: Ravindra Kumar <ravindrakumar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Marko Myllynen 2016-10-26 07:32:17 UTC
Description of problem:
vmware-rpctool / vmware-hgfsclient / vmware-xferlogs do not understand the more or less standard -h option to print out a help messages. It would be nice if -h (possibly also --help) would work with all the commands provided in the open-vm-tools package.

Comment 1 Ravindra Kumar 2016-10-26 18:12:52 UTC
I understand we don't have good documentation. However, we do print the command syntax, e.g.:

$ vmware-rpctool
rpctool syntax:

  rpctool <text>

$ vmware-xferlogs
xferlogs <options> <filename>
options - enc/dec

We do have plans to add man pages for all commands.

Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2016-10-27 08:13:36 UTC
(In reply to Ravindra Kumar from comment #1)
> 
> We do have plans to add man pages for all commands.

Thanks, this sounds very good.

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Comment 5 Ravindra Kumar 2018-11-27 18:24:19 UTC
This was fixed a while back upstream in version 10.2.0.

Comment 6 Ravindra Kumar 2018-11-27 18:25:14 UTC
Closing as it has been fixed a while ago in open-vm-tools version 10.2.0 and later.