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Bug 16581 - searching man pages using 'man -K foobar' causes errors, returns no results
Summary: searching man pages using 'man -K foobar' causes errors, returns no results
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-02-28 14:37 UTC by Greg Watson (linuxkrn)
Modified: 2003-03-18 15:37 UTC (History)
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Description Greg Watson (linuxkrn) 2003-02-28 14:37:13 UTC 
The 'man' search feature, '-K' is currently broken in man-1.5k-r1

When you try to search the pages using the command 'man -K foobar' the following
errors are reported over and over:
Try `grep --help' for more information.
grep: invalid option -- t


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. man -K foobar

Actual Results:  
Try `grep --help' for more information.
grep: invalid option -- t
Try `grep --help' for more information.
grep: invalid option -- t
Try `grep --help' for more information.
grep: invalid option -- t

Expected Results:  
results of pages matching 'foobar'


*  sys-apps/man
      Latest version available: 1.5k-r1
      Latest version installed: 1.5k-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 188 kB
      Homepage:    http://freshmeat.net/projects/man/
      Description: Standard commands to read man pages
Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-18 15:37:34 UTC 
Fixed.  Rsync in a few hours, and check for my comment in the ChangeLog.