Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris man pages

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:27:15 -0700

I keep forgetting that /usr/gnu/bin is first in my path.   Thanks for the reminder and as the Linux style --help says, it was defaulting to my shell version.  As you said, if the options are not in the GNU version then the man page is correct.

motie:/home/lw31248 ->which nohup
nohup: shell built-in command.

motie:/home/xxx ->/usr/gnu/bin/nohup --help
Usage: /usr/gnu/bin/nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
  or:  /usr/gnu/bin/nohup OPTION
Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nohup, which usually supersedes
the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

Thanks...Les

Richard Lowe wrote, On 07/17/09 08:13: 
Leslie H Wood <[email protected]> writes:

  
I noticed that some of the OpenSolaris man pages are very abbreviated
compared to Solaris 10 man pages.   I meant to start taking notes on
which ones but did not.   I just did a "man nohup" and in OpenSolaris
it is really stripped out.   Why are the command options not in the
man page and others have lost the very useful examples?

The man pages were actually getting understandable in Solaris 10  ;-)
    

They're the GNU man pages (/usr/gnu/share/man), the manual pages for the
normal utilities in /usr/man.

I'm not sure whether useful documentation for the wrong utility is
better or worse than useless documentation for the right one though.

-- Rich
  

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