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    [–] qupada@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But also

    mysterytool --help
    mysterytool: unrecognized option: '-'

    ok then...

    mysterytool -h
    mysterytool: unrecognized option: 'h'

    [–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children) 
    mysterytool --help

   ‘--help’ unrecognized option, -h for help

    I will burn this motherfucker to the ground

    [–] Melody@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Or the opposite:

    mysterytool -h

     -h unrecognized option, --help for help

    Both need to burn.

    [–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sometimes mysterytool -H works

    [–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

    mysterytool -haaaaaalp

    [–] iguessthislldo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Some of the older programs and scripts I've seen in the codebases I help maintain have -u or -?. If I have an excuse to do any changes to them I'll usually change them to use -h and --help.

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    And

    mysterytool -h

    mysterytool: try our info page that requires a custom viewer because gnu is better than standards. And there is no regular man page because fuck you

    [–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    If I can't get it with tldr mysterytoolafter all that, then clearly the developer intended it to stay a mystery.

    [–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago 
    strings mysterytool

    As a last resort haha

    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It could be worse. The documentation could be online, only accessible through a paywall.

    [–] droans@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Okay, Oracle.

    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Oh, they do it, too?