[Bug 223522] `whatis .’ returns rando m results

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:47:38 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223522

Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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           Severity|Affects Only Me             |Affects Many People
             Status|New                         |Open

--- Comment #3 from Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> ---
The problems still exists in FreeBSD-14-current. Calling whatis with the a dot
(".") as argument returns 48 hits, but only 24 contains a dot.


$ whatis .  | wc -l
      48

$ whatis . | egrep '\.' | wc -l
      24

On debian11 I get:
$ whatis .
.: nothing appropriate.


and on centos8
$ whatis .
. (1)                - bash built-in commands, see bash(1)

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