ports/126087: wrong man page in sysutils/cmdwatch

Beat Gätzi beat at chruetertee.ch
Sun Aug 10 17:20:03 UTC 2008


The following reply was made to PR ports/126087; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beat_G=E4tzi?= <beat at chruetertee.ch>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dgutaev at mail.ru
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/126087: wrong man page in sysutils/cmdwatch
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:35:49 +0200

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 Please try the attached patch. It should fix this man page issue.
 
 Regards,
 Beat
 
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 diff -Naur cmdwatch.orig/files/patch-cmdwatch.1 cmdwatch/files/patch-cmdwatch.1
 --- cmdwatch.orig/files/patch-cmdwatch.1	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
 +++ cmdwatch/files/patch-cmdwatch.1	2008-08-10 18:32:38.000000000 +0200
 @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
 +--- cmdwatch.1.orig	2000-11-07 14:59:25.000000000 +0100
 ++++ cmdwatch.1	2008-08-10 18:32:33.000000000 +0200
 +@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 +-.TH WATCH 1 "1999 Apr 3" " " "Linux User's Manual"
 ++.TH CMDWATCH 1 "1999 Apr 3" " " " "
 + .SH NAME
 +-watch \- execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
 ++cmdwatch \- execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
 + .SH SYNOPSIS
 +-.B watch
 ++.B cmdwatch
 + .I [\-dhv] [\-n <seconds>] [\-\-differences[=cumulative]] [\-\-help] [\-\-interval=<seconds>] [\-\-version] <command>
 + .SH DESCRIPTION
 +-.BR watch
 ++.BR cmdwatch
 + runs
 + .I command
 + repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screenfull).  This allows you to
 +@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 + The 
 + .I -d or --differences
 + flag will highlight the differences between successive updates.  The 
 +-.I --cumulative
 ++.I --differences=cumulative
 + option makes highlighting "sticky", presenting a running display of all
 + positions that have ever changed.
 + .PP
 +-.BR watch
 ++.BR cmdwatch
 + will run until interrupted.
 + .SH NOTE
 + Note that
 +@@ -33,33 +33,33 @@
 + the first non-option argument).  This means that flags after
 + .I command
 + don't get interpreted by
 +-.BR watch
 ++.BR cmdwatch
 + itself.
 + .SH EXAMPLES
 + .PP
 + To watch for mail, you might do
 + .IP
 +-watch \-n 60 from
 ++cmdwatch \-n 60 from
 + .PP
 + To watch the contents of a directory change, you could use
 + .IP
 +-watch \-d ls \-l
 ++cmdwatch \-d ls \-l
 + .PP
 + If you're only interested in files owned by user joe, you might use 
 + .IP
 +-watch \-d 'ls \-l | fgrep joe'
 ++cmdwatch \-d 'ls \-l | fgrep joe'
 + .PP
 + To see the effects of quoting, try these out
 + .IP
 +-watch echo $$
 ++cmdwatch echo $$
 + .IP
 +-watch echo '$$'
 ++cmdwatch echo '$$'
 + .IP
 +-watch echo "'"'$$'"'"
 ++cmdwatch echo "'"'$$'"'"
 + .PP
 + You can watch for your administrator to install the latest kernel with
 + .IP
 +-watch uname -r
 ++cmdwatch uname -r
 + .PP
 + (Just kidding.)
 + .SH BUGS
 +@@ -75,4 +75,5 @@
 + .B watch
 + was written by Tony Rems <rembo at unisoft.com> in 1991, with mods and
 + corrections by Francois Pinard.  It was reworked and new features added by
 +-Mike Coleman <mkc at acm.org> in 1999.
 ++Mike Coleman <mkc at acm.org> in 1999. This man page based on the watch man
 ++page of the Linux User's Manual.
 diff -Naur cmdwatch.orig/files/patch-cmdwatch.c cmdwatch/files/patch-cmdwatch.c
 --- cmdwatch.orig/files/patch-cmdwatch.c	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
 +++ cmdwatch/files/patch-cmdwatch.c	2008-08-10 18:09:58.000000000 +0200
 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
 +--- cmdwatch.c.orig	2008-08-10 18:08:06.000000000 +0200
 ++++ cmdwatch.c	2008-08-10 18:09:24.000000000 +0200
 +@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 +     { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
 +   };
 + 
 +-char usage[] = "Usage: %s [-dhnv] [--differences[=cumulative]] [--help] [--interval=<n>] [--version] <command>\n";
 ++char usage[] = "Usage: %s [-dhv] [-n <seconds>] [--differences[=cumulative]] [--help] [--interval=<n>] [--version] <command>\n";
 + 
 + 
 + static char *progname;
 
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