On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 00:29, David Prévot <taf...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Le 01/04/2012 18:24, Gergely Nagy a écrit : >> Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > >>> I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any >>> help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > >> help2man -h "" $program will probably do the trick. > > No: > > $ help2man -h "" help2man > help2man: can't get `' info from help2man
That happens because help2man without arguments will output to stderr. Add --no-discard-stderr, and it will just work. Or try with a program that outputs to stdout. It does do the trick. > $ reportbug help2man > > may help to make it work one day. Or you can read the full output of the command you pasted: | algernon@luthien:~$ help2man -h "" help2man | help2man: can't get `' info from help2man | Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOcunHm=VSZ66t0SdrZUJuFCVtVv=wqsht26b7vezxregqh...@mail.gmail.com
