Extended Backus-Naur Form! That is exactly what I was looking for Andreas.
Thank you. I really didn't know what this was called or if there was a
formal definition or not.
Lol, the wikipedia page says that it does not have a single dialect.
The IEEE standard is a good reference for quirks of the
he's not talking about the source level mandoc/man macros
the subject is about the SYNOPSIS section language for utilities
e.g.
in ``grep [ file ]'' the [ ] operator signifies 0 or 1
in ``rm file...'' the ... operator signifies 1 or more
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> > Evan Root writes:
> > > Hello Misc,
> > > I tried man 5 man for an explanation of the synopsis section of the man
> > > page and it says there isn't a manual for the file format conventions of
> > > manual pages. Sometimes I have dif
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Evan Root wrote:
> I think that this post on stack exchange presents my question better.. the
> answers are all pretty short and non-committal though.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8716047/is-there-a-specification-for-a-man-pages-synopsis-section
the best
I don't think you understood. I am not looking to write a man page. I was
just wondering if the system came with an explanation of the manual page
synopsis section language syntax. Sometimes I get confused by the language
and am not sure if I understand the synopsis sections of the man pages.
Also
Evan Root writes:
> Hello Misc,
> I tried man 5 man for an explanation of the synopsis section of the man
> page and it says there isn't a manual for the file format conventions of
> manual pages. Sometimes I have difficulty with the syntax of the synopsis
> sections, is there a document I can ref
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