Thread: Command Line Options for ebook-convert
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Old 08-06-2009, 01:06 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by pepak View Post
You mean, more confusing than the fact that unlike any other command line tool ebook-convert does not print help with either --help or -?

Not to mention that I find it strange (to say the least) that to get a command line help, I must not only specify the input and output formats, but the input file must actually exist! It's not as if anything was read from it - if I create a zero-byte HTML file, I will get my help, but if I use a nonexistent filename, I get an error message...
You've done a survey of all command line tools in existence, have you?
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