Re: Quoting in man 5 core

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Hi Roger,

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Roger Pate <roger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> man 5 core; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/core.5.html
>
> The example section has a sample shell session containing:
>
>  # echo '|$PWD/core_pattern_pipe_test %p UID=%u GID=%g sig=%s'
>
> But $PWD won't be expanded in single quotes.  It should be double
> quotes around the entire argument or some other form.

Thanks. Fixed for man-pages-3.32.

Cheers,

Michael


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