Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > Looking at which programs use and document globbing patterns, it seems
> > odd that some manuals point at glob's C API in the "Library functions"
> > sections instead of the list of special characters in the
> > "Miscellaneous information" section actual patterns are described.
> >
> > Diff below adjusts pax(1), tar(1), sftp(1), ssh_config(5), tmux(1),
> > syslogd.conf(5) as per `man -k xr=glob'. find(1) already mentions
> > section 7.
> >
> > Feeback?
> >
>
> i'm ok with this. i'm not sure though if there is/was a specific reason
> to refer to glob(3), or if it just got copied across pages.
The language-specification man page was added in 2009, but only a
fraction of the consuming programs were adjusted to refer to it.
So, Klemens has the right idea.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mill...@cvs.openbsd.org 2009/03/05 08:13:30
Modified files:
share/man/man7 : Makefile
bin/csh : csh.1
bin/ksh : ksh.1 sh.1
lib/libc/gen : glob.3 fnmatch.3
Added files:
share/man/man7 : glob.7
Log message:
Add glob(7) and refer to it. OK jmc@ sobrado@
