Bug#829159: mention what will happen when colrm used with no args

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

All I am saying is in such cases some tools make usage messages. But OK
never mind.

Bug#829159: mention what will happen when colrm used with no args

[Michael Meskes]

> MM> Eh? What else would you expect?
> 
> A usage message.

Why?

> Anyway it turns out colrm with no args is more like colrm infinity,
> than
> colrm 3, colrm 2, colrm 1 etc.

Again I have no idea what you're trying to say. How about being a bit
more precise and using a wording that is not open to interpretation?

> $ date|colrm 0
> colrm: illegal column -- 0
> 
> At least it says something some times.

Uh, what's that supposed to mean?

Anyway, I'm tempted to close the bug because I cannot see a problem if
a tool that is supposed to remove columns from a file does not remove
any if given no range of columns to remove.

Michael
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Bug#829159: mention what will happen when colrm used with no args

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

> "MM" == Michael Meskes  writes:
MM> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 01:44:48PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Mention what will happen if both start and stop are omitted.
>> E.g.,
>> $ date | colrm

MM> Eh? What else would you expect?

A usage message.

Anyway it turns out colrm with no args is more like colrm infinity, than
colrm 3, colrm 2, colrm 1 etc.

$ date|colrm 0
colrm: illegal column -- 0

At least it says something some times.

Bug#829159: mention what will happen when colrm used with no args

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 01:44:48PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Mention what will happen if both start and stop are omitted.
> E.g.,
> $ date | colrm

Eh? What else would you expect? I doubt we should mention all rather obvious 
defaults in all manpages.

Michael
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Bug#829159: mention what will happen when colrm used with no args

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.10
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/colrm.1.gz

Mention what will happen if both start and stop are omitted.
E.g.,
$ date | colrm