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Date: | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:59:18 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:45:11AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Eric Blake! > >>> coreutils 8.5-2 does not install a man page for the "[" command in section 1. >>> This could/should be a symlink to test (test.1 contains the necessary >>> documentation), or a trivial roff file containing .so man1/test.1 (untested). > >> Upstream coreutils does not provide a [.1 man page, even though it does >> provide a test.1 man page. On Fedora, test.1 is from coreutils, while >> [.1 is an alias to the bash builtins man page. I could repeat that >> setup in cygwin, since I already create bash builtin alias pages for >> other bash builtins, like shopt.1. > >That, probably, would be most desirable choice. I beginning to think that we need a new mailing list to discuss issues relating to '[' . Clearly 2011 will be the Year of the Left Bracket. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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