another markdown booboo: literal '~' characters being dropped
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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
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. t
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
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