id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1083	Request for option to show version to generate help for all command line tools	Michael Wood-Vasey	eugene	"It would be useful for all IPP and PsLib (and other software under ""our"" control) to report the version information and help information.  E.g.,

addstar -v
addstar --version

prints the version number (and possibly other relevant version/compilation-related information) to STDOUT and exits.  

addstar -h
addstar --help

For example:

[wwoodvas@calm] gcc --version
powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The choice of the exact option specification is up to system standardization.  E.g., perhaps double - options such as --version are not supported by choice.

P.S.  I had to choose some component to submit this bug report, but really this applies to all of PSLib and all of IPP software."	enhancement	assigned	low		misc	unspecified	minor