[Bug 784758] [NEW] Wrong documentation for 'od'

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Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) has assigned this bug to you for coreutils in Ubuntu:

Binary package hint: coreutils

The documentation from

od --help

and from

man od

diverge on the short name for the --string option.

od --help says:
  -s, --strings[=BYTES] 
(note the lowercase -s)

man od says:
 -S, --strings[=BYTES]
(note now it is uppercase -S)

The right documentation for this option is the one in the 'man', because
the desired featured is indeed achieved through -S (uppercase).

Thus od --help displays wrong informations and should be corrected.

(Probably upstream ?)


I discovered that trying to port a script I wrote for Lucid to a BusyBox running on a NAS.
Unfortunately the guys at BusyBox programmed as it is documented in the --help, and thus BusyBox's od and GNU's od have diverging features.

... nasty trick GNU guys have plaid to BusyBox, and they should probably
be warned (if they don't already know because I have to cope with an old
BusyBox).

** Affects: ubuntu-translations
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Ubuntu French Translators (ubuntu-l10n-fr)
         Status: New

** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: i10n
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Wrong documentation for 'od'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784758
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