On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Jan Stary wrote: > On Feb 12 11:12:46, j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: > > On 2015-02-12 10:50, Jan Stary wrote: > > >On Feb 12 10:15:08, j...@johnmerriam.net wrote: > > >>What does it show when you run the alias command with no arguments to > > >>display your current aliases? > > >> > > >>I noticed that in the error message there is no space between -m and the > > >>path. That seems a bit odd. > > > > > >$ alias > > >autoload='typeset -fu' > > >diff='diff -Nup' > > >functions='typeset -f' > > >hash='alias -t' > > >history='fc -l' > > >integer='typeset -i' > > >ll='ls -lAp' > > >local=typeset > > >login='exec login' > > >ls='ls -p' > > >man='man -m /home/hans/man' > > >nohup='nohup ' > > >pdftops='pdftops -paper A4' > > >r='fc -e -' > > >stop='kill -STOP' > > >type='whence -v' > > > > > > > > >In particular, the space is there, as specified in the alias command. > > >But the problem is probably not in the aliases: > > > > > >$ unalias man > > >$ man -m ~/man ls > > >man: -m/home/hans/man: Bad argument > > > > > > Jan > > > > I would assume it would cause you more problems than just man if it were the > > case, but, if you do a `vis /etc/passwd`, are there any funny characters in > > the home directory for your username? Just a thought since that space > > between -m and the path seems to disappear in the error. > > No. > > > If you leave out -m /path and just run `man ls`, does that work? > > With man unaliased, it works just fine. > With 'man -m ~/man', or with man aliased to that, > 'man ls' gave me the error above. > > > Also, which version of OpenBSD are you running on this machine? > > 5.6 or -current? > > current/amd64 > > Jan > >
Hmmm. There was one small change to man.c on January 16th but it doesn't look like that should be the problem I wouldn't think. Previous change was back in 2013. It is also possible it is something funny with shell expansion or something. Which shell are you using? I just blew away my -current machine the other day. I don't have -current running any more so I can't try to duplicate it for you. If no one else answers the thread on misc I would recommend sumitting a bug with sendbug. -- John Merriam
