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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.