Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:47:52 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: =?UTF-8?B?W0J1ZyAyMjM1MjJdIGB3aGF0aXMgLuKAmSByZXR1cm5zIHJhbmRv?= =?UTF-8?B?bSByZXN1bHRz?= Message-ID: <bug-223522-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223522 Bug ID: 223522 Summary: `whatis .’ returns random results 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 Running whatis for the single character “a” works fine: $ whatis a a.out(5) - format of executable binary files But running whatis with a single dot returns random results. It includes “a.out”, but many manpages which don’t have a ‘.’ in the name $ whatis . | head -8 whatis .|head -8 c++filt(1) - decode C++ symbols w(1) - display who is logged in and what they are doing config.guess-2.69(1) - guess the build system triplet config.sub-2.69(1) - validate and canonicalize a configuration triplet ifnames-2.69(1) - Extract CPP conditionals from a set of files a.out(5) - format of executable binary files rtld, ld-elf.so.1, ld.so(1) - run-time link-editor gittutorial-2(7) - A tutorial introduction to Git: part two -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.help
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