Richard, Thanks for the good catch on grep(1). I'll file a bug.
As to the loss of "tune a fish" and other classic lines, I regret their passing and look forward to a less sterile age. :-) Terry Gibson Solaris man pages > Subject: [docs-discuss] error on grep man page > > Just actually slowed down and read the following on grep(1): > > > -h Prevents the name of the file containing the matching > > line from being appended to that line. Used when > > searching multiple files. > > "appended" is incorrect; "prefixed" or if it is a word, "prepended" might be more > appropriate, as the file name followed by a colon would otherwise precede the > matching line, not follow it. > > As an aside, while I respect that some of the unprofessional remarks from man pages > have been removed over time, I wish someone would collect them and create a > "tradition(5)" (or (6) perhaps) man page. Some of them, like the line from tunefs(1m) > "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish", were worth preserving in some sense.. > I seem to recall some version 7 or PWB/Unix man pages that were even better, like gong(1) > which described a (nonexistent) command to deal with obnoxious processes modelled on > "The Gong Show", and one or two others along those lines. A pointer to some of the 1 April RFCs > might also be in order. IMO, that stuff should properly be kept separate from more legitimate > documentation, but at least that which is not obscene should be not only preserved but within those > limits, continue to be promulgated, so that normal people can discover that programmers and > geeks have a sense of humo[u]r too. :-) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org
