Some Dashes/Hyphens in rsync's Manual Page on -current Are Different
by TommyC7 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HG5Q)
Hello folks,
Today when searching for one of rsync's long options that I know for a fact it has, my pager (less) said it wasn't able to find the pattern I fed it, which was just "--compress-choice".
It was however, able to find "--compress" when I noticed just beneath it, the "--compress-choice" option was there but the hyphen/dash after the last 's' in "compress" wasn't the same as the first two hyphens/dashes in the long option.
I fired up a clean -current VM to see if it happened to be some personal changes I made on my own laptop or if it had been my terminal but it wasn't and the clean -current VM had the same issue.
A quick glance through the "rsync.1" file in the source tarball shows the dashes/hyphens that can get searched are escaped. Here's a small snippet:
Quote:
With that said:
1. Does anyone else have this issue on -current specifically with rsync's man page?
There may be others but I can only confirm this issue with rsync on my end.
2. What regular expression could properly and inconsequentially substitute all cases of the un-escaped '-' with the escaped variant?
Today when searching for one of rsync's long options that I know for a fact it has, my pager (less) said it wasn't able to find the pattern I fed it, which was just "--compress-choice".
It was however, able to find "--compress" when I noticed just beneath it, the "--compress-choice" option was there but the hyphen/dash after the last 's' in "compress" wasn't the same as the first two hyphens/dashes in the long option.
I fired up a clean -current VM to see if it happened to be some personal changes I made on my own laptop or if it had been my terminal but it wasn't and the clean -current VM had the same issue.
A quick glance through the "rsync.1" file in the source tarball shows the dashes/hyphens that can get searched are escaped. Here's a small snippet:
Quote:
| .IP Rsync supports multiple compression methods and will choose one for you unless you force the choice using the \fB\-\-compresschoice\fP (\fB\-\-zc\fP) option. .IP |
1. Does anyone else have this issue on -current specifically with rsync's man page?
There may be others but I can only confirm this issue with rsync on my end.
2. What regular expression could properly and inconsequentially substitute all cases of the un-escaped '-' with the escaped variant?