https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223522
Dakotah Lambert <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Dakotah Lambert <[email protected]> --- apropos (and by extension whatis) uses (case-insensitive, extended) regular expressions in all instances. In all reported instances, the “.” has matched a “word” containing a single character, as confirmed by $ printf '%s\n' word-to-test | grep -o '\<.\>' The results are as follows: c c++filt w w 2 config.guess-2.69 2 config.sub-2.69 2 ifname-2.69 a a.out 1 ld-elf.so.1 2 gittutorial-2 Note also: $ whatis '[a]' a.out(5) - format of executable binary files In order to search for a manpage entitled “.” alone, you would search $ whatis '[.]' whatis: nothing appropriate To confirm: $ whatis . | wc -l 17 $ whatis . | grep '\<.\>' | wc -l 17 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
