These files refer to hidden configuration files that have these names. If you simply do `man .k5identity` you will understand why they exist. Greetings. El mar, 6 jul 2021 a las 14:19, Yi Zheng via arch-general (< arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) escribió: > Eli Schwartz: > > Thank you for your kindly reply. I got it. > Do you think that 2 small gz files should not be the hidden one? I > searched the dir /usr/share/man, and found that > those only those 2 files are name as the hidden ones. > > Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 于2021年7月6日周二 上午9:48写道： > > > > On 7/5/21 9:31 PM, Yi Zheng via arch-general wrote: > > > pkgfile shows: > > > core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz > > > core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz > > > > > > I'm sure that they are rubbish due to the small size...... > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Mar 21 21:16 > /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39 Mar 21 21:16 > /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz > > > > > > They're not "rubbish". They are man's version of symlinks. > > > > $ gzip -d < /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz > > .so man5/k5identity.5 > > $ gzip -d < /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz > > .so man5/k5login.5 > > > > You may find *many* very small files in /usr/share/man in the range of > > around 30 bytes to 130 bytes, which contain these zsoelim(1) > > preprocessor macros that simply include a different page as is. > > > > > > -- > > Eli Schwartz > > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > > > -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
