Your message dated Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:21:46 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#809218: look -t needs example on man page has caused the Debian Bug report #809218, regarding look -t needs example on man page to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.6+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/look.1.gz Please add an example to -t Specify a string termination character, i.e., only the characters in string up to and including the first occurrence of termchar are compared. so more folks might know what you are talking about.
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--- Begin Message ---> -t Specify a string termination character, i.e., only the > characters > in string up to and including the first occurrence of > termchar > are compared. > > Why would one use this instead of just giving a shorter string? All > things that need mentioning / examples. I beg to disagree. Just because you cannot think of a motivation for this option does not make it a bug that motivation is given. It would be a bug if existing functionality was not described, but apparently it is. BTW I do agree in this option not seeming to make any sense, but I guess it made sense back in the day. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
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