Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <20040229010617.80332.qmail@web60201.mail.yahoo.com>
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
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402281148170.19703@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

--- 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.

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail.
http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/