On 27/07/2025 01:20, Collin Funk wrote:
In the Coreutils man pages we have occurrences of:--option=[+]count to indicate an optional '+' sign in the given number. The help2man script generates poor output for these. This can be seen on the tail man pages [1]. Here is the generated HTML: <b>-c</b>, <b>--bytes</b>=<i>[</i>+]NUM Specifically, the italic tag makes the '[' appear strange. However, the case for: --option=[-]count looks much better. We can see this in the head man page [2]: <b>-c</b>, <b>--bytes</b>=<i>[-]NUM</i> The attached patch fixes it. WDYT? I tagged bug-help2...@gnu.org, but I am not sure if it even exists because I cannot find an archive. And AFAIK it is not version controlled, only distributed through ftp.gnu.org. Collin [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tail.1.html [2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/head.1.html
+1 CC'ing Brendan O'Dea just in case. cheers, Padraig
