[PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

[PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

[Josh Triplett]

gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---
 man7/environ.7 | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
index ee8ca97f6..77d9d3950 100644
--- a/man7/environ.7
+++ b/man7/environ.7
@@ -339,16 +339,10 @@ etc.).
 However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
 gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
 Thus, one has
-.BR MORE ,
-.BR LESS ,
-and
-.BR GZIP .
+.BR MORE and
+.BR LESS .
 Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
 programs.
-The authors of
-.I gzip
-should consider renaming their option to
-.BR GZIP_OPT .
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR bash (1),
 .BR csh (1),
-- 
2.30.1

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hi Josh,

On 3/8/21 8:07 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

Thanks for the patch.  I applied it, with a minor cosmetic tweak in the 
source.  See 
<https://github.com/alejandro-colomar/man-pages/commit/f2af28be182d51e0fd6dd13dd879d3e2ec3b835f>.

We write variable names and such in separate lines, with nothing but 
punctuation, so 'and' belongs to a different line.

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
>   man7/environ.7 | 10 ++--------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
> index ee8ca97f6..77d9d3950 100644
> --- a/man7/environ.7
> +++ b/man7/environ.7
> @@ -339,16 +339,10 @@ etc.).
>   However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
>   gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
>   Thus, one has
> -.BR MORE ,
> -.BR LESS ,
> -and
> -.BR GZIP .
> +.BR MORE and
> +.BR LESS .
>   Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
>   programs.
> -The authors of
> -.I gzip
> -should consider renaming their option to
> -.BR GZIP_OPT .
>   .SH SEE ALSO
>   .BR bash (1),
>   .BR csh (1),
> 

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

[PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

[Alejandro Colomar]

From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ alx: srcfix ]
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man7/environ.7 | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
index ee8ca97f6..d618ac749 100644
--- a/man7/environ.7
+++ b/man7/environ.7
@@ -339,16 +339,11 @@ etc.).
 However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
 gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
 Thus, one has
-.BR MORE ,
-.BR LESS ,
+.B MORE
 and
-.BR GZIP .
+.BR LESS .
 Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
 programs.
-The authors of
-.I gzip
-should consider renaming their option to
-.BR GZIP_OPT .
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR bash (1),
 .BR csh (1),
-- 
2.30.1

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete admonishment of the GZIP environment variable

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Alex,

On 3/20/21 12:57 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> 
> gzip deprecated the GZIP environment variable long ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> [ alx: srcfix ]
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man7/environ.7 | 9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7
> index ee8ca97f6..d618ac749 100644
> --- a/man7/environ.7
> +++ b/man7/environ.7
> @@ -339,16 +339,11 @@ etc.).
>  However, in some traditional uses such an environment variable
>  gives options for the program instead of a pathname.
>  Thus, one has
> -.BR MORE ,
> -.BR LESS ,
> +.B MORE
>  and
> -.BR GZIP .
> +.BR LESS .
>  Such usage is considered mistaken, and to be avoided in new
>  programs.
> -The authors of
> -.I gzip
> -should consider renaming their option to
> -.BR GZIP_OPT .
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR bash (1),
>  .BR csh (1),
> 


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Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/