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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org >
