-h –Help -help Help –? –?

Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by vmception on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:04AM (#30998478)

and then you launch from the command line into the app’s own console starting with > where no flags work and maybe informative commands are actually function names ending in ()

But no, maybe that doesnt work either

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Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by ChiefOBrien on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:18AM (#30998576)

And then you encounter some ancient apps without GNU readline support (oracle sqlplus and mysql, I'm looking at both of you). No history support, cursor keys emit characters on the line, literal hell when trying to quickly fix remote database...

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Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by opan on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:54AM (#30999079)

I ran into this recently with the default sftp shell on macOS. Tab makes a tab character also. Very annoying.

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Re:-h –Help -help Help –? –? by jffry on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:42AM (#30998705)

rlwrap [1] may be able to help

[1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap

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