On Saturday 13 November 2021 11:41:00 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 07:26:04 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > My mdadm manpage does not show the -S command. Scanniing it again to > > make sure, probably for about the 10th time and I finally found it > > but many megabytes of relatively unimportant drivel down from the > > top, IMO the manpage is missleading as such an important option > > ought to be shown on the first screenfull. > > You could sponsor it—just reply to one of those junk emails, > "Get top page ranking!"
Sure, and its a good thing these jerks can't be located, as I know where an old mine cache is, with several 1 cup containers of 75 yo nitro that ought to be really unstable by now in it. Probably someones sick idea for darwin award bait. I would have spoiled their fun by backing off a couple hundred meters and seeing what effect an Ackley-06 rattling around inside it had, but it looked like I might be ducking a 200lb steel door if I did. So I walked off and went back to deer hunting. Safer. > Serously, you need only type /\-S into less, if you set it as > your manpage viewer, export MANOPT="-P less" > > I would make one small criticism of some manpages; for example: > chmod has its arguments documented in running text, whereas a > table would be much easier to scan: > > A combination of the letters ugoa controls which users' access > to the file will be changed: > u the user who owns it, > g other users in the file's group, > o other users not in the file's group, > a all users. > none the effect is as if (a) were given, but bits > that are set in the umask are not affected. > > compared with: > > A combination of the letters ugoa controls which users' > access to the file will be changed: the user who owns > it (u), other users in the file's group (g), other > users not in the file's group (o), or all users (a). > If none of these are given, the effect is as if (a) > were given, but bits that are set in the umask are not > affected. > > Cheers, > David. Plus 100 or more, David. That wall of text has confused me since red hat 5.0 in 1998. Soon to be 25 years. This has been a linux only house for that long. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
