Thanks so much for this feedback. The grep.1 man page has been revised 
and integrated into snv_85.

Pattie
section1 man page writer


Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:56:49PM -0800, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>   
>> 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..
>>     
>
> That got removed?  That wouldn't happen in FreeBSD, if only because of
> the following warning in the comments :)
>
>     % zgrep -A3 dog /usr/share/man/man8/tunefs.8.gz
>     .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until
>     .\" the time_t's wrap around.
>     .Pp
>     You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
>
> Ceri
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