Am I missing something (possible) seem obvious, but..

[Andrew Derry]

Hi, I like to report bugs and help, but how could this not be so obvious
as to have gone unnoticed..? So I hate to waste your time too, but..

I type: grub-mkconfig -v .. here's a simple copy-paste:

derry@AI8:~/Desktop$ grub-mkconfig -v
Unrecognized option `-v'
Usage: grub-mkconfig [OPTION]
Generate a grub config file

  -o, --output=FILE       output generated config to FILE [default=stdout]
  -h, --help              print this message and exit
  -v, --version           print the version information and exit

Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
derry@AI8:~/Desktop$

isn't that supposed to mean -v will print the version information and
exit? The version is displayed with the long --version as:

grub-mkconfig (GRUB) 2.04-1ubuntu26.9

Here's my uname -a   ... and the basics:

root@AI8:/home/derry/Desktop# uname -a
Linux AI8 5.8.0-44-generic #50~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:07:30
UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz × 12
Graphics: NV20  (Old MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (64bit)
GNOME 3.36.8 on X11

apt, apt-get, and Synaptic all say up to date.

Feel free if I missed anything to ask away... Sorry if it's something
obvious I missed, it happens.  Should I go to Grub2? Don't really know
what the diff is.
(PS - same results using root, checked, just in case)


Thank you for your time!

Andrew