Magnus Therning wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:42:40AM +0100, Jan Fader wrote: > >>Hello archlinux-user >> >>Am Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:13:13AM +0200, hat Dimitrios Apostolou geschrieben: >> >>>I currently see this very strange behaviour on two different archlinux >>>systems. When I run whatis or apropos, nomatter what the argument is, at >>>the end of the output I always get an "X" character. >>> >>>Anybody else experiencing this? >> >>I get the 'X' character at the end of the output too. > > > Me too! > > Just remade the whatis database, still there. Please post if you find a > remedy. >
I just found out it is a bug in mawk. A workaround, not a solution, is to use gawk: ln -sf /usr/bin/gawk /bin/awk makewhatis Dimitris _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
