bin/67041: "fortune -m" peeks in "fortune" file only
Yar Tikhiy
yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Sat May 22 06:50:48 PDT 2004
>Number: 67041
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: "fortune -m" peeks in "fortune" file only
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat May 22 06:50:17 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Yar Tikhiy
>Release: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Moscow State University
>Environment:
Fresh CURRENT installation
>Description:
fortune(6) displays fortunes from the "fortunes" and "fortunes2"
files by default. This can be verified with "fortune -f".
However, searching for a pattern with -m applies to "fortunes" only.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ /usr/games/fortune -m LESSER-KNOWN -f
___% /usr/share/games/fortune
___% fortunes
___% fortunes2
That is fortune(6) promises to look into the two files.
Now let's actually search for the phrase.
$ /usr/games/fortune -m LESSER-KNOWN | fgrep "%% ("
%% (fortunes)
The phrase is found in "fortunes" only. Now let's add
the "all" argument to fortune(6).
$ /usr/games/fortune -m LESSER-KNOWN all | fgrep "%% ("
%% (fortunes)
%% (fortunes2)
I.e., the phrase is present "fortunes2", too, but fortune(6)
won't find it there by default.
Conclusion: "fortune -m" won't look into "fortunes2", although
it promises to.
>Fix:
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