[HBASE-24550] Passing '-h' or '--help' to bin/hbase doesn't do as expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0, 1.7.0, 2.1.10, 1.4.14, 2.2.6
• Component/s: Operability, shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: wenfeiyi666
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 12/Jun/20 17:19
• Updated: 04/Apr/23 12:27
• Resolved: 19/Jun/20 17:42

Description

If I do 'bin/hbase -h' or './bin/hbase --help', it doesn't dump usage as I'd expect. Instead, the param gets passed direct to the jvm for it to spew complaint that the param is unrecognized.

Should do the right thing.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-27777 bin/hbase --help does not list "omnibus_tarball" options
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1914
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1930
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1932
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1947
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1949
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1950