Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:41:48 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 223526] man(1) expands page names which contains wildcards Message-ID: <bug-223526-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223526 Bug ID: 223526 Summary: man(1) expands page names which contains wildcards 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 I tried to search a manpage with an asterix and surprisely it returns a manpage. The man(1) page says: SYNOPSIS man [mansect] page ... $ man -w 'm*n' /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz $ man -a -w '*[nM]*[nN]*' /usr/share/man/man1/continue.1.gz /usr/local/man/man1/FvwmBanner.1.gz /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.24/perl/man/man1/perlintern.1.gz /usr/share/man/man8/ancontrol.8.gz /usr/local/man/man8/avahi-dnsconfd.8.gz /usr/share/man/man2/clock_nanosleep.2.gz /usr/share/man/man3/ATOMIC_VAR_INIT.3.gz /usr/local/man/man3/CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS.3.gz /usr/share/openssl/man/man3/ASN1_TIME_print.3.gz /usr/local/lib/erlang/man/man3/CosEventChannelAdmin.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3/Authen::NTLM.3.gz /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.24/perl/man/man3/CPAN::HandleConfig.3.gz /usr/share/man/man4/acpi_panasonic.4.gz /usr/share/man/man5/dhclient.conf.5.gz /usr/local/man/man5/avahi-daemon.conf.5.gz /usr/share/man/man6/banner.6.gz /usr/share/man/man7/environ.7.gz /usr/local/man/man7/ALTER_DOMAIN.7.gz /usr/local/lib/erlang/man/man7/SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB.7 /usr/share/man/man9/DB_COMMAND.9.gz On debian I get a result as expected: $ man -w 'm*n' No manual entry for m*n --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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