ouch-org/ouch

Help message is incomplete and wrong

freijon opened this issue · 5 comments

freijon commented

Version

0.4.1

Description

When running ouch --help I see a message which doesn't list ouch list but shows its help-text

Current Behavior

Running ouch --help shows:

A command-line utility for easily compressing and decompressing files and directories.

Supported formats: tar, zip, bz/bz2, gz, lz4, xz/lz/lzma, zst.

Repository: https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch

Usage: ouch [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  compress
          Compress one or more files into one output file [aliases: c]
  decompress
          List contents of an archive [aliases: l]
  help
          Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -y, --yes
          Skip [Y/n] questions positively

  -n, --no
          Skip [Y/n] questions negatively

  -A, --accessible
          Activate accessibility mode, reducing visual noise

          [env: ACCESSIBLE=]

  -H, --hidden
          Ignores hidden files

  -q, --quiet
          Silences output

  -g, --gitignore
          Ignores files matched by git's ignore files

  -h, --help
          Print help information (use `-h` for a summary)

  -V, --version
          Print version information

...indicating that ouch decompress "List contents of an archive [aliases: l]". The explanation of ouch decompress is missing completely

The sub-command list is not showed in the help, but running ouch list --help works fine.

Expected Behavior

Help text should be complete and correct

Additional Information

No response

figsoda commented

I can't reproduce this. Does this happen every time you run ouch --help?

marcospb19 commented

Can you double check the version you're at by running ouch --version?

If possible tell us where you downloaded the binary from.

freijon commented

I'm sure I'm using 0.4.1 - It's a self-compiled binary (Gentoo package) which uses the 0.4.1 release archive.
I did some investigation and was able to narrow it down... It only happens:

  • On my virtual machines (SSH)
  • When using zellij. If I quit zellij and run ouch --help directly without multiplexing, the help is displayed correctly
  • On my PC (no SSH) it also works fine while using zellij

summary: It's 100% reproducible on my VMs over SSH with zellij. Otherwise I can't reproduce the issue.

figsoda commented

I can't reproduce this in zellij either. What terminal emulator are you using? and can you try redirecting it to a file (ouch --help > foo) and see if it still happens?

freijon commented

ouch --help > foo yields a correct help text. This leads me to believe that it's actually a zellij over ssh issue and everything is fine with ouch. In the mean time I was also in contact with the zellij devs and they believe it could indeed be a bug on their side - but it will be hard to reproduce. Anyway, it's most likely not an ouch issue, so I'll close this issue.

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