From: Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Marcus Geiger <geiger.marcus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: man 1 getopts example code - wrong dash
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:31:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170313033145.GR31094@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADOJ=xsjhuZ7_r8JXgfcgXVRi-bf1gN9irBnOePra+i-xv9HuA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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On 27 Feb 2017 15:16, Marcus Geiger wrote:
> in the examples section of `man 1 getopts`, every dash/minus used in the
> example code cannot be parsed by bash. vi claims it's 0x2212 instead of 0x2d.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with bash 4.3.46(1)-release. Unfortunately I couldn't find
> the source code for this man page, but the current online pages entry also has
> this problem: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getopts.1p.html
>
> The containing package is:
>
> $ dpkg -S $(man -w 1 getopts)
> manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/getopts.1posix.gz
looks like a bug in the man page itself. it uses \(mi instead of \- in
the example code. might be an artifact of the conversion process though
as iirc, the posix pages are generated.
-mike
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-27 14:16 man 1 getopts example code - wrong dash Marcus Geiger
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2017-02-27 16:02 ` walter harms
2017-03-13 3:31 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2017-12-03 15:25 ` minus signs instead of hyphen-minuses in man-pages-posix-2013-a (was: man 1 getopts example code - wrong dash) Nico R.
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2018-02-09 7:22 ` minus signs instead of hyphen-minuses in man-pages-posix-2013-a (was: man 1 getopts example code - w Daniel Lublin
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