Re: man command question

2014-03-09 Thread g
On 03/10/14 03:27, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 09Mar2014 21:41, g wrote: being that no one asked, i will. why would someone send a man page to a null device? to a printer, file, another terminal, yes. /dev/null, never. The same reason one might send anything to /dev/null; to execise the comma

Re: man command question

2014-03-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Mar2014 21:41, g wrote: > being that no one asked, i will. > why would someone send a man page to a null device? > to a printer, file, another terminal, yes. /dev/null, never. The same reason one might send anything to /dev/null; to execise the command without keeping the output. Test framew

Re: man command question

2014-03-09 Thread g
On 03/07/14 14:41, Joachim Backes wrote: On 03/06/2014 09:38 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Mar2014 16:19, lee wrote: Joachim Backes writes: I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome terminal) if using the "-P" command option: m

Re: man command question

2014-03-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 03/06/2014 09:38 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Mar2014 16:19, lee wrote: >> Joachim Backes writes: >>> I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, >>> and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome >>> terminal) if using the "-P" command option: >>> >>> man -P cat man >/dev/null

Re: man command question

2014-03-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Mar2014 16:19, lee wrote: > Joachim Backes writes: > > I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, > > and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome > > terminal) if using the "-P" command option: > > > > man -P cat man >/dev/null > > > > should use the cat command as pager. I ge

Re: man command question

2014-03-06 Thread lee
Joachim Backes writes: > Hi all, > > I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, > and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome > terminal) if using the "-P" command option: > > man -P cat man >/dev/null > > should use the cat command as pager. I get the expected effect, but one > or

man command question

2014-03-06 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, I'm running F20 on gnome3 desktop, and I see some weird effect in the man command (entered in a gnome terminal) if using the "-P" command option: man -P cat man >/dev/null should use the cat command as pager. I get the expected effect, but one or more additional messages to stderr: :981