RE: man redirect error
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? snip/ In this case, the OP was simply using head as an example to show how piping the output of man was generating an unexpected error. As you all know, Unix is rich in text processing tools, so it shouldn't be a surprise that one might want to do some processing of man output. Further experimentation with piping man output suggests that the error presents itself when the process receiving the man output stream terminates (as with head) before man is done writing it. --Ken Nellis
Re: man redirect error
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error. $ man gcc | head GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 36096. No manual entry for gcc $ probably not. Why are you wanting to head the output? Man already displays using a pager. $ uname -a Linux raker2 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #7 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 17 16:11:22 EST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux $ man gcc |head GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man (echo .pl 11i; /bin/bzip2 -c -d '/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man/man1/gcc.1.bz2') | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less) exited with status 141. No manual entry for gcc
RE: man redirect error
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error. $ man gcc | head GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 11i; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 36096. No manual entry for gcc $ probably not. Why are you wanting to head the output? Man already displays using a pager. Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: $ MANPAGER=head man gcc GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com
RE: man redirect error
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: $ MANPAGER=head man gcc GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos
RE: man redirect error
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could just use the MANPAGER environment variable to do what he wants: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apropos Yes, I know :-) I was trying to suggest apropos might be what the OP was trying to find while also providing a literal solution to his problem. -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com
