Open mikeweilgart opened 5 years ago
The man command gives inconsistent results. man tail produces an error: man: command not found.
man
man tail
man: command not found
Typing in gibberish as an argument to the man command gives a more accurate error such as: No manual entry for lksjdflkjsdf.
No manual entry for lksjdflkjsdf
The man page for tail does seem to exist, e.g. running man -k last lines shows tail in the list of relevant man pages.
tail
man -k last lines
It's unclear what kind of parsing is occurring that leads to the man: command not found error.
Summary
The
man
command gives inconsistent results.man tail
produces an error:man: command not found
.Typing in gibberish as an argument to the
man
command gives a more accurate error such as:No manual entry for lksjdflkjsdf
.The man page for
tail
does seem to exist, e.g. runningman -k last lines
showstail
in the list of relevant man pages.It's unclear what kind of parsing is occurring that leads to the
man: command not found
error.