Am 17.10.2022 um 22:45 teilte Gavin Smith mit: Hi Gavin,
An improvement would be to check the exit status of "man -a" and if not found, to fall back to loading the man page as usual.
I guess you rather want to check for exit status of "man -w", correct? This sounds like a reasonable idea to me.
Thanks for your help!
$ uname -a
SunOS login 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
$ man -w foo
usage: man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ] [ -s section ] name ...
man [-M path] -k keyword ...
man [-M path] -f file ...
$ echo $?
2
$ man foo
No manual entry for foo.
$ echo $?
0
$
This would allow us to keep the performance improvement from using
"man -a" (presumably Hilmar is using it for something and isn't just
looking for problems for no reason).
Well, I'm just a got a issue report from a user and reported it to you. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021839 Hilmar -- sigfault
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