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Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by Aachen on Monday April 11, 2022 @08:01PM (#30996838)
The first one is verbose, not version, though? Not sure if you're used to a set of utilities that doesn't intersect the ones I'm used to where -v is version. I've seen -V, though.

And then there's grep

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Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by saghm on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:42AM (#30999023)
I agree that -V is more common. I have used a few things that use -v for version though (I think `ruby` does, which led to some confusion for me the first time I tried to pass that to `python` and instead of getting the version number found myself in a more chatty than normal python shell).
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