Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:22:11 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 223517] The man(1) manual page has no mention about the exit status of the command Message-ID: <bug-223517-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223517 Bug ID: 223517 Summary: The man(1) manual page has no mention about the exit status of the command Product: Base System Version: CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: wosch@FreeBSD.org The man(1) manual page has no mention about the exit status of the command. Nothing. Here is an copy of the debian man(1) page section, and I wish we would have something similar in our documentation: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dman&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0&man= path=3DDebian+8.1.0&arch=3Ddefault&format=3Dhtml#EXIT_STATUS EXIT STATUS 0 Successful program execution. 1 Usage, syntax or configuration file error. 2 Operational error. 3 A child process returned a non-zero exit status. 16 At least one of the pages/files/keywords didn't exist or wasn= 't matched. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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