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4.7.2 --help

The standard --help option should output brief documentation for how to invoke the program, on standard output, then exit successfully. Other options and arguments should be ignored once this is seen, and the program should not perform its normal function.

Near the end of the ‘--help’ option's output there should be a line that says where to mail bug reports. It should have this format:

     Report bugs to mailing-address.