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and subject line more manpage formatting improved for -<num> option
has caused the Debian Bug report #411468,
regarding util-linux: [more] option -num is not well documented at all
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-18
Severity: minor
Hi,
The manpage of more claims:
-num This option specifies an integer which is the screen size (in
lines).
The usage claims:
usage: more [-dflpcsu] [+linenum | +/pattern] name1 name2 ...
I got complaints from users about "-num <n>" not working and finally
discovered that -num should be -<num> with <num> replaced with the
number of lines.
I think the manpage should get clarified about this. Having this broken
description at the very top of the manpage is not good.
The usage does not seem to include -num at all, it should be fixed too.
Thanks,
Brice Goglin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20=topinambour
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 universally unique id library
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii tzdata 2006p-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.25-1
Hello.
The more manpage option -<num> has been improved upstream in
commit 4c5a6f3d3927c83a782e4e567fee0b6d66813dc4
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensb...@justemail.net>
Date: Sun Feb 9 11:26:49 2014 +0100
more: improve formatting and wording of man page and help text
This upstream change has been part of the Debian package since
2.25-1 so this bug report can be closed.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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