In Manpage of EMERGE it is stated: To find files that need to be updated in /etc, type find /etc -iname ´._cfg????_´* Taking a closer look at it (copy-pasted from terminal -- not from the online version of the manual): find /etc -iname ´._cfg????_*´. Using exactly this command won't work because the string in question is inside forward-ticks ´...´ and not inside single quotes, like find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' which works as expected. Is this a local misconfiguration or a typographical error in the Manpage? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man emerge 2. copy the example command "find /etc -iname ´._cfg????_*´" 3. paste in the command line (shell) and execute Actual Results: No valid results returned (when confirmed that there are files in the form of as the requested string requests). Expected Results: Return file matching the "._cfg????_*" pattern (when, they, exist of course). http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/127786/13011
Created attachment 376470 [details] edited emerge.1 file with replaced quote to test if this fixes it for you, call man with "man path/to/emerge.1 diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index abb0ed8..dccff96 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ Protected directories are set using the \fICONFIG_PROTECT\fR variable, normally defined in make.globals. Directory exceptions to the CONFIG_PROTECTed directories can be specified using the \fICONFIG_PROTECT_MASK\fR variable. To find files that need to be updated in /etc, type \fBfind /etc \-name -\[aq]._cfg????_*\[aq]\fR. +\'._cfg????_*\'\fR. .LP You can disable this feature by setting \fICONFIG_PROTECT="\-*"\fR in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480192 ***
(In reply to Brian Dolbec from comment #1) > -\[aq]._cfg????_*\[aq]\fR. > +\'._cfg????_*\'\fR. I've tested your change and for me it gives the exact opposite of the desired result (it results in forward ticks instead of single quotes). From `man groff_char`: Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ' \[aq] quotesingle u0027 apostrophe quote (ASCII 39) It has rendered correcly for me since this commit from bug 480192: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=bf892931fa344f89d51d038296ca7e374ce3b30f
