Package: cpio
Version: 2.3
Revision: 2
>From the mt(1) man page in the cpio package:
-V, --version
Print the version number of mt.
# mt --version
GNU mt version 2.3
# mt -V
mt: option requires an argument -- V
Usage: mt [-V] [-f device] [--file=device] [--help] [--version] operation [count]