Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal
Piping 'man' to 'grep -m 1' didn't used to give errors,
but now:
% man bash | grep -m 1 bash ; echo $?
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
man: command exited with status 13: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanejXLZa |
/usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -Tascii | /usr/bin/col -b -p -x |
/usr/bin/pager -s
0
And yet if I grep a string that's not present:
% man bash | grep -m 1 baaaaaaaash ; echo $?
1
I'm not sure whether the bug is in 'man-db' or 'grep'.
For debugging, attached is the output of:
{ man --debug bash | grep -m 1 bash ; echo $? ; } 2>&1 | gzip >
/tmp/mangrepm.dump.gz
Hope this helps...
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mangrepm.dump.gz
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