coreutils: output expected error for unrecognized options #9869
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The coreutils multicall binary doesn't use clap for argument parsing - it manually handles a few known options (--list, --version, --help) and treats everything else as a utility name.
When given an unrecognized option like
--unknownor-/, it was outputting:This was causing the
usage_vs_getopt.shGNU test to fail because it expects the standard error format:This PR adds detection for option-like arguments (starting with
-) and outputs the proper error message.