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Bug 52341 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 4 messages Jan 4, 2013 – Jan 12, 2013 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Summary: erroneous example in "rename" man page
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: slave2bob-/[email protected]
Regression: No

util-linux-2.22.2/misc-utils/rename.1 includes the text:

.SH EXAMPLES
Given the files
.IR foo1 ", ..., " foo9 ", " foo10 ", ..., " foo278 , the commands
.RS
.PP
.nf
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
.fi
.PP
.RE
will turn them into
.IR foo001 ", ..., " foo009 ", " foo010 ", ..., " foo278 .

This is not what those two commands will actually do. To produce
the described result, the first command, instead of:

rename foo foo0 foo?

should be:

rename foo foo00 foo?

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[Bug 52341] erroneous example in "rename" man page

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52341

Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2013-01-05 10:45:36 --- This page is in another package. See

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/man_pages_other.html

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[Bug 52341] erroneous example in "rename" man page

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--- Comment #2 from Wendy <slave2bob-/[email protected]> 2013-01-12 02:33:47 --- Thanks for the link. The man page in question says, near the end, "The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/."

If this Bugzilla is not the correct place to report bugs on packages distributed by kernel.org, can you please point me to the place that is?

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2013-01-12 08:58:02 ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux

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