Package: procps Version: 1:3.3.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Debian folks,
using a locale where the decimal sign is a comma »,« rather then a point
».«, reading the manual page and trying it, the following error is
printed.
$ watch -n '.5' ls -l
watch: failed to parse argument: '.5'
Which is great, that the program is able to detect that. But normally a
lot of programs do not care for such things (bc for example) and
therefore users try with the point ».« and at least I did not think of
just using the comma »,« instead.
Could the manual page be updated to mention it depends on the
localization or procps just accept both comma and point.
Thanks,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-32
ii libc6 2.13-36
ii libncurses5 5.9-10
ii libncursesw5 5.9-10
ii libprocps0 1:3.3.4-1
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.20-1
procps suggests no packages.
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