Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:46:00 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: =?UTF-8?B?W0J1ZyAyMjM1MjJdIGB3aGF0aXMgLuKAmSByZXR1cm5zIHJhbmRv?= =?UTF-8?B?bSByZXN1bHRz?= Message-ID: <bug-223522-227-i2fnY5JQjj@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-223522-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223522 Dakotah Lambert <vvulpes0@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vvulpes0@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Dakotah Lambert <vvulpes0@gmail.com> --- 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.home | help
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