RE: xfsdump and -v or -V?

[Matteo Centonza <matteo@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Try "xfsrestore --help | more", which puts the version on the last line. For
> some odd reason "xfsrestore --help" puts the version at the top of the help
> screen but, "xfsrestore --help | more" puts it on the last line, obviating
> the need to "look through the tons of lines generated with --help". Maybe
> these SGI programmers are deceptively good at user interface design :), as
> well as at engineering this really high-performance filesystem.
>       Murthy

that's because the version number is sent to stderr (and the usage to 
stdout); Try this one:

xfsrestore --help 2>/dev/null

Ciao,

-m