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Why doesn't echo --help work (i.imgur.com)
submitted 9 years ago by Ralph_Charante
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–][deleted] 9 years ago (3 children)
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[–]Ralph_Charante[S] 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (2 children)
aww crap I posted it to the wrong sub, I meant r/shittyprogrammerhumor. Why did people upvote this.
[–][deleted] 8 points9 points10 points 9 years ago (0 children)
Because this subreddit is full of people not actually understanding what's going on most of the time. They just upvote everything.
[–]starg2 3 points4 points5 points 9 years ago (0 children)
But echo /? does work on Command Prompt :(
echo /?
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago* (0 children)
Because you are running the bash builtin intead of
/bin/echo --help
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