On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote:
Problem #1:
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After I loaded a few cygwin packages, I got this:
$ man bash | wc
man: can't execute col: No such file or directory
The "man" command works perfectly when the stdout is NOT redirected,
but, when sent to a pipe or a file, the command "man" fails with the
above message.
Question #1:
Shouldn't the 'man' function/package depend on the 'col' function/package?
Problem #2
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To solve my 'man' problem,I tried to find the 'col' command.
I launched the standard interface (setup.exe) and entered 'col' in the
'Search' text field.
It gave me a list of packages, mainly related to 'colamd', 'colorgc',
'protocol' stuff, 'colored' stuff, 'texlive-collection' stuff,
'colordiff'...
but no clear link to the missing 'col.exe'.
wrong way. Setup search only package names, not their content
Best with
https://cygwin.com/packages/
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=col.exe&arch=x86
also with
$ cygcheck -p col.exe
Found 4 matches for col.exe
netpbm-10.61.02-1 - Toolkit for manipulation of graphic images
netpbm-debuginfo-10.61.02-1 - Debug information for Toolkit for
manipulation of graphic images
util-linux-2.21.2-1 - Random collection of Linux utilities
util-linux-debuginfo-2.21.2-1 - Debug information for Random collection
of Linux utilities
of course "col" is too short to be meaningful, "col.exe"
is a better catch.
Question #3
To get a 'man' that works when piped, is there a better way than
loading this "random" collection of utilities?
Am I the only one to get that problem???
util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed.
man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed,
specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary.
)jack(
Marco
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