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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-10-16 08:18:23 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-10-16 08:32:43 +0000
commitdde1b083571ed893cbb1990f01f9e11ed804cba5 (patch)
tree33f8cdc98c63453347f2fd4e6878dd89c1245364 /Documentation
parent37724c7e792ca0e1df9f64cfc17cebf7359ca9f0 (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-dde1b083571ed893cbb1990f01f9e11ed804cba5.tar.gz
man(1) on FreeBSD unconditionally emits backspace characters
for the bold effect despite its output being piped to awk(1).

Also tested with the man-db.nongnu.org version provided with
Debian (and presumably most other Linux systems).
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/include.mk2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/include.mk b/Documentation/include.mk
index 4af8d455..2878422c 100644
--- a/Documentation/include.mk
+++ b/Documentation/include.mk
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ doc_install :: install-man
 # enabled by default "check" target:
 # check :: check-man
 check_man = @echo CHECK80 $<;COLS=80 $(MAN) ./$^ | \
-        $(AWK) 'length>80{print;err=1}END{exit(err)}' >&2
+        $(AWK) '{gsub(/\b./,"")}length>80{print;err=1}END{exit(err)}' >&2
 
 %.1.cols : %.1; $(check_man)
 %.5.cols : %.5; $(check_man)