java - - version
Unrecognized operation: - - version

FUCK!!!

java - version
java version "1.x...."

EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!

Why Java, WHY?!?!? 😭

Every other tool uses - - version ❤️

There is a good explanation of how the single and double dash parameter style evolved. You can look it up here :) http://faqs.org/docs/artu/...

Because it is used by more than 3 Billion Devices. ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

@TheCPPanda Thanks for that mate 😄 Hopeful Wayland will terminate X and we'll have only 2 variants + java 😄

However it doesn't seem as java is on the same evolution trajectory as *nix and GNU.... "java - v" doesn't exist and could have been added by now.

@canonbolt Sure, more like pissing off more than 1 million developers :)

@canonbolt and for how many years now? 🤔

Genuine question, they themselves should probably be thinking about using a new catchphrase.

What if it would be
$ java --version
Unknown Parameter
$ java -version
Unknown Parameter
$ java /version
OpenJDK 21...

Meaning that Java isn't very Unix-compatible :)
Single letter command-line switches are supposed to be like -V (-v is usually to increase command output verbosity) and optionally have a more verbose switch such as --version.

That said, Java certainly isn't the only one.. don't even get me started on OpenVPN in Windows which uses Unix-style switches but PowerShit (i.e. diarrhea) interprets those switches as something different entirely.. because fucking MICROSHIT!!

Sorry, I went a bit ahead of myself there :P but nonstandard shit can really infuriate me to no end.

Yep, gets me every now and then as well

java -jar file.jar always confuses me

Java is not like others