[SOLR-7960] bin/solr -h should print generic help

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.4
• Component/s: scripts and tools
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 24/Aug/15 12:28
• Updated: 15/Dec/15 13:55
• Resolved: 25/Aug/15 05:46

Description

Typing only:

bin/solr

...prints the generic tool help, but if you add a -h

bin/solr -h

...you get an error message and the help for the start command. In fact, any unknown parameter given, such as bin/solr -foo will assume start.

This is confusing, since -h is a common help option. Could check for the special case where there is only the -h switch given, in which case we should not assume the intention is to do start but to get help.

Issue Links

• is part of: SOLR-7961 Add version command to bin/solr start script