On 10:44 04 Apr 2003, Kip Cranford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I've installed a new RH 8 workstation recently, and
| have noticed the following error when doing
|
| % man exec
|
| This gives:
|
| <standard input>:15: realpath on `bash.1' failed: No
| such file or directory
|
| and then man page is kind of garbled after that. This
| seems to happen on any of the builtins (other man
| pages seem to be ok).
|
| Has anyone else seen this, and fixed it? I haven't
| been able to find much on Google, but surely everyone
| with RH 8 has this problem, as I'm using an
| out-of-the-box install...
Yeah, the man command and/or the bash manual entry installation
is busted-as-supplied.
Here's a diagnosis I made in February:
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 22:38:36 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Error
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On 20:10 11 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| When i key in the command *man history* i got this error
|
| <standard input>:16: realpath on `bash.1' failed: No such file or directory
|
| what does this error means.
It looks like a bug in the bash manual entries.
The "history.1" file (/usr/share/man/man1/history.1.gz) sources
"man1/builtins.1", which in turn sources "bash.1". It appears to me that
seeking "man1/builtins.1" finds it immediately; "bash.1", lacking the
"man1/" prefix needs a further search. This doesn't happen. Instead,
it looks for "/usr/share/man/bash.1", which doesn't exist because it's
in the file "/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz" instead).
Bodgy.
Just go "man bash" and check things out there.
Hope that helps.
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But blip it thrice, and you've sinned once more.
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