On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Tom Sweeney wrote:
On 1/28/20 11:41 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just tripped over this ... the use of '~' in a man page to represent
> a home directory doesn't end well, as that character appears to be
> replaced by a space.
>
> example: from podman-build.1.md (toward the bottom):
>
> $ cat ~/Dockerfile | podman build -f - .
> ... snip ...
> $ podman build -f Dockerfile.in ~
>
> the current man page rendering:
>
> $ cat /Dockerfile | podman build -f - .
> $ podman build -f Dockerfile.in
>
> a quick google suggests this really is an issue:
>
>
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/8228
>
> thoughts? there are only a couple more examples of that in "man
> podman" -- everywhere, the use of "$HOME" works fine.
>
> rday
>
I'd say change them over to $HOME/Dockerfile.
makes sense ... i looked pretty extensively for a way to preserve
the tildes, and found nothing.
rday