17 Invoking the Utilities

Certain options are available in all of these programs. Rather than writing identical descriptions for each of the programs, they are listed here.

‘--version’

Print the version number, then exit successfully.

‘--help’

Print a help message, then exit successfully.

‘--’

Delimit the option list. Later arguments, if any, are treated as operands even if they begin with -. For example, recsel -- -p reads from the file named -p.