[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-11591) hadoop message for help and version with hyphens confusing

["Sanjeev T (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sanjeev T created HADOOP-11591:
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             Summary: hadoop message for help and version with hyphens confusing
                 Key: HADOOP-11591
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11591
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: scripts
    Affects Versions: 2.6.0
            Reporter: Sanjeev T
            Priority: Trivial


hadoop message, for help and version confuse the user

* for hadoop help

{noformat}
hadoop --help

Usage: hadoop [--config confdir] COMMAND
       where COMMAND is one of:
  fs                   run a generic filesystem user client
  version              print the version
  jar <jar>            run a jar file
  checknative [-a|-h]  check native hadoop and compression libraries availability
  distcp <srcurl> <desturl> copy file or directories recursively
  archive -archiveName NAME -p <parent path> <src>* <dest> create a hadoop archive
  classpath            prints the class path needed to get the
                       Hadoop jar and the required libraries
  daemonlog            get/set the log level for each daemon
 or
  CLASSNAME            run the class named CLASSNAME

Most commands print help when invoked w/o parameters.
{noformat}

* for checking the hadoop version
{noformat}
$ hadoop --version
Error: No command named `--version' was found. Perhaps you meant `hadoop -version'

$ hadoop -version
Error: No command named `-version' was found. Perhaps you meant `hadoop version'

$ hadoop version
Hadoop 2.0.0-cdh4.3.0

{noformat}




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