[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50034] "help ./" causes some extraneous printout of path info

[Dan Sebald]

URL:
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                 Summary: "help ./" causes some extraneous printout of path
info
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: sebald
            Submitted on: Wed 11 Jan 2017 11:16:22 PM GMT
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

When doing a "help ./" to see the documentation for element-by-element
division, something is mistaking that './' for a path to the current directory
and prints out a little blurb.  There may be some other aspect of "help"
pertaining to the contents of scripts in a directory, and maybe this can't be
prevented, but it seems strange:


octave:1> help ./
'./' is the file /home/sebald/audio/data

 -- ./
     Element by element right division operator.

     See also: /, .\, rdivide, mrdivide.

Additional help for built-in functions and operators is
available in the online version of the manual.  Use the command
'doc <topic>' to search the manual index.

Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW
at http://www.octave.org and via the address@hidden
mailing list.


"help .\" is OK, at least on unix, but I'm not sure what would happen in
Windows where the backward slash is used for directory specification.




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