* [PATCH] doc: check-man: ignore backspace char
@ 2019-10-16 8:18 7% Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2019-10-16 8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
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).
---
Documentation/include.mk | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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)
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