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Re: uniq man page doesn't mention exit values
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: uniq man page doesn't mention exit values |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:05:49 +0800 |
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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
Jim> Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> nor does the info page.
Jim> Thanks for the report, but there's a section on this in the
Jim> info documentation. Maybe you didn't see that?
Jim> Exit status
Oh, I see, that's how you do it these days. OK, but just as the code
itself must explicitly do its exiting, at least each info page, except
of course
Jim> `expr', `false', `nohup', `printenv', `sort', `test', `true', `tty'.
Should mention that This command uses standard GNU exit statuses, with
a Info-footnote-reference to your above page.
Otherwise it just feels like exit statuses are no big deal to you guys
compared to the older UNIX manuals, and maybe you forgot them.
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