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Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:06:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: man unsafe shell command
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--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> >
> > not executing command:
> >   <unsafe shell command>
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Elvin,
> invoking man, you don't give it the actual man page,
> AFAIK, but the name
> of the command...

From man(1):
  
However,  if  name contains a slash (/) then man
interprets it as a file specification, so that you can
do  man  ./foo.5 or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.

Thanks for the reply.

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