[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dashes messed up in man pages on OpenIndiana oi_147

Guido Berhoerster gber at openindiana.org
Mon Nov 8 21:06:00 UTC 2010


* Hillel Lubman <shtetldik at gmail.com> [2010-11-08 21:42]:
> I just noticed, that man pages started to look strangely. For example *man
> ls* produces:
> 
>      --a --all
>           do not ignore entries starting with .
> 
>      --A --almost--al
>           do not list implied . and ..
> 
>      --author
>           with --l print the author of each file
> 
>      --b --escape
>           print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters
> 
> Note the double dash --a. Those double dashes are all around. I.e. every
> dash seems to be shown as double (also it's not two symbols - it's actually
> one character).
> 
> What can be causing it?

What is your PATH? Can you try putting /usr/bin before
/usr/gnu/bin?

-- 
Guido Berhoerster



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