couchbase help does not work - couchbase

Question

I just downloaded Couchbase for OS X (community edition) and started it up. That part went well. Then I started up the command line shell, cbq, and tried to run commands according to their docs:
http://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/current/tools/cbq-shell.html#topic_bzd_zwr_w5
I can successfully run things like:
select * from `beer-sample` limit 1;
...but I cannot run the metacommands like:
\HELP;
\ECHO hello;
Those all come back with an error response:
cbq> \HELP;
{
"requestID": "a52b8f2f-bef3-4d6f-83a8-f839ad1a87bb",
"errors": [
{
"code": 3000,
"msg": "Input was not a statement."
}
],
"status": "fatal",
"metrics": {
"elapsedTime": "401.285µs",
"executionTime": "347.522µs",
"resultCount": 0,
"resultSize": 0,
"errorCount": 1
}
}
and
cbq> \ECHO hello;
{
"requestID": "0ec331ca-9f74-409f-b904-6d9543af73da",
"errors": [
{
"code": 3000,
"msg": "syntax error - at hello"
}
],
"status": "fatal",
"metrics": {
"elapsedTime": "492.399µs",
"executionTime": "431.839µs",
"resultCount": 0,
"resultSize": 0,
"errorCount": 1
}
}
What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It seems to work for me...
cbq> \help;
Help information for all shell commands.
\ALIAS [ name value ]
\CONNECT url
\COPYRIGHT
\DISCONNECT
\ECHO args ...
\HELP [ args ... ]
\POP [ parameter ]
\PUSH [ parameter value ]
\QUIT
\EXIT
\REDIRECT OFF | filename
\SET [ parameter value ]
\SOURCE filename
\UNALIAS name ...
\UNSET parameter
\VERSION