Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:25:15PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> tags 412467 fixed-upstream
>> thanks
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>>> The following pages repeat the the word "the":
>> Was this subtle humour? ;-)
> Or otherwise my attempt thereat.
>
>>> ptrace
>> This seems already to have been fixed in some post 2.39 upstream release.
> In 2.40 now:
>
> This call is used by programs like User Mode Linux that want to emu-
> late all the the child's syscalls. (addr and data are ignored;
> ^^^^^^^
>
>>> scanf
> corresponding pointer argument. If the next item of input does not
> match the the conversion specification, the conversion fails
> ^^^^^^^
>
>> I do not even see the problem in 2.39. Please provide more info.
>>
>>> tsearch
> |to a leaf node. (These symbols are defined in <search.h>.) The third
> |argument is the depth of the node, with zero being the root. You should
> |not modify the tree while traversing it as the the results would be
> ^^^^^^^
> |undefined.
>
>
>> I also wrote a short script that found a few other duplicated word errors.
> Could you share it? I wrote something to the effect of
> dpkg -L |xargs zgrep -Ee '(\w{5,}) *\1'
>
> I think I wrote something more effective another time, but can't think
> what it was.
>
> Justin
The following will be in scripts/find_repeated_words.sh. NOTE: it provides
guidance only: the files must still be inspected -- some duplicate words
are valid English.
Cheers,
Michael
#!/bin/sh
#
# A simple script for finding instances of repeated consecutive words
# in manual pages -- human inspection can then determine if these
# are real errors in the text.
#
# Usage: sh find_repeated_words.sh [file...]
#
for file in "$@" ; do
words=$(man -l "$file" 2> /dev/null | col -b | \
tr ' \008' '\012' | sed -e '/^$/d' | \
awk 'BEGIN {p=""} {if (p==$0) print p; p=$0 }' | \
grep '[a-zA-Z]' | tr '\012' ' ')
if test "X$words" != "X"; then
echo "$file: $words"
fi
done
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