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Bug 45238 - cowsay --help has Getopt errors
Summary: cowsay --help has Getopt errors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2004-03-20 15:23 UTC by Don Seiler (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-03-20 17:43 UTC (History)
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Description Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-20 15:23:37 UTC
When I run 'cowsay --help', it looks like there are issues with Getopt:Std and it doesn't exit, so I have to hit Ctrl-C to get back to prompt.  Here is complete output:

 $ cowsay --help
/usr/bin/cowsay version [unknown] calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.05 [paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.8.3.

Usage: cowsay [-OPTIONS [-MORE_OPTIONS]] [--] [PROGRAM_ARG1 ...]

The following single-character options are accepted:
        With arguments: -e -f -T -W
        Boolean (without arguments): -b -d -g -h -l -L -n -N -p -s -t -w -y

Options may be merged together.  -- stops processing of options.
Space is not required between options and their arguments.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
   See ``perldoc Getopt::Std'' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]
Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-20 15:25:59 UTC
17:14 <@ciaranm> echo "fcnaxl, yrnir zr nybar" | tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' | cowsay -f 
                 $(grep '^.odom' /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n 1 | cut -d 'y' 
                 -f '1')ized
Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-20 15:31:49 UTC
OK ciaranm was having fun at my expense so ignore that.

/me looks up the work 'gullible' in dictionary.

Anyway the help stil doesn't work but I don't know who to ass
Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-03-20 15:36:33 UTC
Didn't you hear? They took the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary last year.
Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-20 17:43:19 UTC
the Getopt issue has been fixed in cvs.

thanks for the bug report.