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		Spivak 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for G... I'm gonna take a stab here and say that -version behaves in a BSD manner and --version behaves in a GNU manner.

guappa 9 months ago [–]

It's just that if you pass "ersion" to --verbose it prints the version :D

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