Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/samuel/.local/bin/symilar", line 11, in <module> sys.exit(run_symilar()) File "/home/samuel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylint/__init__.py", line 29, in run_symilar Run(sys.argv[1:]) File "/home/samuel/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylint/checkers/similar.py", line 341, in Run opts, args = getopt(argv, s_opts, l_opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 88, in getopt opts, args = do_longs(opts, args[0][2:], longopts, args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 152, in do_longs has_arg, opt = long_has_args(opt, longopts) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/getopt.py", line 169, in long_has_args raise GetoptError('option --%s not recognized' % opt, opt) getopt.GetoptError: option --version not recognized

finds copy pasted blocks in a set of files Usage: symilar [-d|--duplicates min_duplicated_lines] [-i|--ignore-comments] [--ignore-docstrings] [--ignore-imports] file1...