tags 571285 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:16:56PM -0500, A. Costa wrote:
> Two extant sections, only last prints:
>
> % whatis -s 1 -s 3 printf
> printf (3) - formatted output conversion
> % whatis -s 1 -s 1 printf
> printf (1) - format and print data
> % whatis -s 3 -s 1 printf
> printf (1) - format and print data
[...]
> ...but it'd be less convenient than:
>
> whatis -s 1 -s 8 printf
>
> ...or something like:
>
> whatis -s '[18]' printf
Thanks for your report. I haven't implemented this quite the way you
suggested, but in man-db 2.6.0 you'll be able to say:
whatis -s 1:3 printf
et al.
Thu Dec 2 23:54:03 GMT 2010 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
Allow passing multiple sections to whatis and apropos (Debian bug
#571285).
* src/whatis.c (options): Allow spelling --section as --sections;
this is now the preferred long spelling. Document that the
argument may be colon-separated.
(split_sections): New function.
(parse_opt): Pass -s argument through split_sections.
(do_whatis): Move most logic to ...
(do_whatis_section): ... here.
(do_whatis): Iterate over sections, calling do_whatis_section for
each.
(do_apropos): Test all requested sections.
* man/man1/apropos.man1 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS), man/man1/whatis.man1
(SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document new semantics.
* man/po4a/po/man-db-manpages.pot, man/po4a/po/*.po: Update.
* NEWS: Document this.
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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