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| author | Marc Brooks <IDisposable@gmail.com> | 2023-05-10 17:48:00 -0500 |
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| committer | Pauli <pauli@openssl.org> | 2023-05-18 17:18:10 +1000 |
| commit | 831ef5347253a9381c2ab6bd3ca74cbe10995939 (patch) | |
| tree | 6409af018ebb7314294c9bf1d940733bd8fcb2c6 /doc | |
| parent | 219db5e43c4f030a1c9c4a2f28249fd89b05ea0d (diff) | |
Add support for --version and synonyms
Just like --help is explicitly supported, we should support --version.
This will greatly ease people adopting openssl.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Cosgrove <tom.cosgrove@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/20936)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man1/openssl.pod | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl.pod b/doc/man1/openssl.pod index 9bfd2f88a8..3d185bdc27 100644 --- a/doc/man1/openssl.pod +++ b/doc/man1/openssl.pod @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ I<command> B<openssl> B<no->I<XXX> [ I<options> ] +B<openssl> B<-help> | B<-version> + =head1 DESCRIPTION OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) @@ -499,13 +501,33 @@ SM4 Cipher Details of which options are available depend on the specific command. This section describes some common options with common behavior. -=head2 Common Options +=head2 Program Options + +These options can be specified without a command specified to get help +or version information. =over 4 =item B<-help> Provides a terse summary of all options. +For more detailed information, each command supports a B<-help> option. +Accepts B<--help> as well. + +=item B<-version> + +Provides a terse summary of the B<openssl> program version. +For more detailed information see L<openssl-version(1)>. +Accepts B<--version> as well. + +=back + +=head2 Common Options + +=over 4 + +=item B<-help> + If an option takes an argument, the "type" of argument is also given. =item B<--> |