The command for creating the Searx user fails in Debian 10

[themaster567]

Or rather, it is not seen as a command at all and simply prints the help page for useradd.

root@Killbotvii-srv:~# sudo -H useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
>     --home-dir /usr/local/searx \
>     --comment Privacy-respecting metasearch engine searx
Usage: useradd [options] LOGIN
       useradd -D
       useradd -D [options]

Options:
  -b, --base-dir BASE_DIR       base directory for the home directory of the
                                new account
  -c, --comment COMMENT         GECOS field of the new account
  -d, --home-dir HOME_DIR       home directory of the new account
  -D, --defaults                print or change default useradd configuration
  -e, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE  expiration date of the new account
  -f, --inactive INACTIVE       password inactivity period of the new account
  -g, --gid GROUP               name or ID of the primary group of the new
                                account
  -G, --groups GROUPS           list of supplementary groups of the new
                                account
  -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
  -k, --skel SKEL_DIR           use this alternative skeleton directory
  -K, --key KEY=VALUE           override /etc/login.defs defaults
  -l, --no-log-init             do not add the user to the lastlog and
                                faillog databases
  -m, --create-home             create the user's home directory
  -M, --no-create-home          do not create the user's home directory
  -N, --no-user-group           do not create a group with the same name as
                                the user
  -o, --non-unique              allow to create users with duplicate
                                (non-unique) UID
  -p, --password PASSWORD       encrypted password of the new account
  -r, --system                  create a system account
  -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
  -s, --shell SHELL             login shell of the new account
  -u, --uid UID                 user ID of the new account
  -U, --user-group              create a group with the same name as the user
  -Z, --selinux-user SEUSER     use a specific SEUSER for the SELinux user mapping

As you can see, it doesn't even remotely work. I'm so baffled because I don't see anybody else reporting this, so obviously something must be going wrong on my end, but this is a nearly brand new instance of Debian 10. It's configured to be a web server for a blog and not much else. I simply do not understand how the 2nd command you're supposed to run could just not work. What am I missing?

[return42]

Sorry, there is a typo / fixed in #2063

$ sudo -H useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
    --home-dir /usr/local/searx \
    --comment 'Privacy-respecting metasearch engine' searx