podman exec [mandatory command?]

dilyanpalauzov commented 3 months ago

Issue Description

At https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-exec.1.html the synopsis is:

podman exec [options] container [command [arg …]] podman container exec [options] container [command [arg …]]

For me this means that the command argument is optional. The webpage does not say what is the default command, if command does not follow exec. So I thought it will be the Containerfile’s ENTRYPOINT. But it is not:

$ podman exec -ti uuu
Error: must provide a non-empty command to start an exec session: invalid argument

The problem report is that the synopsys at the aforementioned web page, and the synopsis printed by podman exec --help wrongly suggest, that COMMAND is optional, by putting it between square brackets.

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podman info output

podman 5.0.3 on darwin/amd64.

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

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giuseppe commented 3 months ago

thanks for opening the issue. The documentation is wrong, the argument to exec is mandatory

alkesander commented 3 months ago

@giuseppe can you please add me as assignee? I can update the documentation accordingly.

giuseppe commented 3 months ago

@alkesander, it was assigned to you

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edsantiago commented 2 months ago

@alkesander, ping, are you still interested in working on this?

aksaswadkar commented 2 weeks ago

Hi @rhatdan are you working on this? If not, I'd like to give it a try.

rhatdan commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks I guess I worked on this and forgot to submit it. PTAL

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