Package: wireless-tools
Version: 28-1
Severity: minor
File: /sbin/iwlist
Usage message doesn't mention --help and version.
Man page doesn't mention --help except at top.
By the way,
# iwlist eth0
iwlist: unknown command `eth0'
BAD MESSAGE. Give Usage message instead.
P.S., you should add a command "all", so the user doesn't have to do
# iwlist 2>&1|sed 's/.* //'|xargs -n 1 --verbose iwlist
Wait, I forgot the eth0... and it still worked! Proving that the eth0
was optional all along! So say
iwlist [interface] scanning etc.
on the man page and usage, instead of
iwlist interface scanning etc.
Wait, it does in the Usage message, but not on the man page!
And the alias names are on the Usage message, but not in the SYNOPSIS.
OK, add a "all" command lest we need:
# man iwlist|perl -alnwe 'next unless $#F==2;print $F[2] if
$F[0]eq"iwlist"'|xargs -n 1 --verbose iwlist eth0
P.S., I found some trailing blanks with:
echo scanning frequency rate key power txpower retry event|\
xargs -n 1 iwlist eth0 2>&1|\
sed 's/ $/ <--TRAILING BLANKS/'
We also note that [interface] is optional for iwspy, in contrast to
its man SYNOPSIS and Usage message, which don't match each other well
too by the way. Check the other iw* commands too.
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