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On 02/08/2018 12:44 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:

> 
> The current "-h" output is missing a header with a description
> of program name an version.
> 
>   $ ./setup-2.887.x86.exe --help |head

Generally, if you want to learn the version, you should use --version, 
rather than --help.  (Some programs also output the version in --help, 
but GNU Coding Standards don't require that, so it is not universal the 
way --version should be)

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