1 1 2.1.1 Generic Program Information 1 --------------------------------- 1 1 ‘--help’ 1 Print a usage message briefly summarizing the command-line options 1 and the bug-reporting address, then exit. 1 1 ‘-V’ 1 ‘--version’ 1 Print the version number of ‘grep’ to the standard output stream. 1 This version number should be included in all bug reports. 1