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coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort"


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort"
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:38:35 -0700
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ThMO <address@hidden> writes:

> The neccessary parameter is:  --info-page="coreutils $*"
> That way the man-page clearly state the command to type as:
>   info coreutils <cmd>
> without the need to name each command inside the info/dir file explicitely.

Thanks for the suggestion.  So, I take it that you'd favor a patch
like the following?  This looks good to me.

Jim, what do you think?


2005-09-29  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Have the sort man page suggest "info
        coreutils sort" rather than "info sort", and similarly for the
        other man pages.  Suggested by

--- man/Makefile.am     5 Apr 2005 22:21:14 -0000       1.38
+++ man/Makefile.am     29 Sep 2005 17:36:04 -0000
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/install/gi
        (cd $t && $(LN_S) ../../src/$(mapped_name) $*); \
        $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/help2man           \
            --include=$(srcdir)/$*.x            \
+           --info-page='coreutils $*'          \
            --output=$t/$@ $t/$*
        @sed 's|$*\.td/||g' $t/$@ > $@
        @chmod a-w $@




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