Hi,
tmux author refuses to add -h, --help option, because OpenSSH
does not have it [1]. I don't see why convenience features of tmux
should depend on OpenSSH, but because I have no other choice
(and got curious) I ask here - why OpenSSH doesn't provide -h or
--help option?
I use PuTTY as my client, which processes --help option, and for
`ssh` binary I usually use Google + StackOverflow. Having --help
option that works as an human friendly entrypoint for more
information about command would certainly save some time.
Current output from `ssh --help`:
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
[-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
[-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
[-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
[-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
[-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [user@]hostname [command]
Proposed output:
C:\Program Files\Git\bin>ssh.exe --87
usage: ssh [options] [user@]hostname [command]
options:
-h --help show this help
-v --verbose increase verbosity
--version show version
-p port port if different from default (default:22)
-l login_name
-i identity_file
-F configfile
tunnel options:
-D [bind_address:]port run SOCKS server
-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport
connect local port to remote host
-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport
forward local port for remote
access at host:hostport
use ssh --help --verbose to show more options.
These can be expanded in `ssh -h -v`. I don't remember what these mean.
[-1246AaCfgkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
[-e escape_char]
[-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option]
[-S ctl_path]
[-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
1. http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/32480639/
--
anatoly t.
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