On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 15:15:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/30/2018 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 09:27:02 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >[snip] > >> > >>You have identified a documentation bug! > > > >No, I haven't. You may think *you* have, but you haven't. > > > >>The relevant line of the HTML of > >>https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/coreutils/ls.1.en.html is > >> > >></a></h1> > >>GNU coreutils online help: <<a > >>href="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/">http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/</a> > >> > >>and www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ gives no navigational guidance. > >> > > *YES* > *YOU* have identified a bug. > Just not the one either of us thought we were discussing.
I only saw a misunderstanding of how man pages impart information. > Carefully read the quoted HTML. > There be a missing "ls". I'm not in the habit of reading HTML but I went to your reference and it looks like your quotation is rendered as: REPORTING BUGS GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> This is exactly what's written at the end of the local man page too. Clicking on this link takes me (after allowing an automatic redirect) to: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html where there's a bug reporting section a little over halfway down the page: Bug Reports If you think you have found a bug in Coreutils, then … > I suspect a corrupt mirror. Why? Where is the "ls" string missing from? > Have *NO* idea how to verify. > Will try at a similar time tomorrow. You can compare the webpage above with the output of $ man ls yourself at any time of day. > Is there any way to establish *EXACTLY* which mirror I'm viewing? Cheers, David.