i tried the example from http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getopts.1p.html and it failed because some invisible chars where embedded sh -x page.sh + aflag= + bflag= + getopts ab: name + '[' '!' $'\342\210\222z' '' ']' page.sh: line 13: [: −z: unary operator expected + '[' '!' $'\342\210\222z' '' ']' page.sh: line 16: [: −z: unary operator expected page.sh: line 19: 1 − 1: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "− 1") this does not happen when i clip the example rendered with groff (aka man). i guess your problem may have the some origin. re, wh Am 27.02.2017 15:16, schrieb Marcus Geiger: > Hello, > > in the examples section of `man 1 getopts`, every dash/minus used in the > example code cannot be parsed by bash. vi claims it's 0x2212 instead of 0x2d. > > I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with bash 4.3.46(1)-release. Unfortunately I couldn't find > the source code for this man page, but the current online pages entry also has > this problem: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getopts.1p.html > > The containing package is: > > $ dpkg -S $(man -w 1 getopts) > manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/getopts.1posix.gz > > Kind regards > > Marcus Geiger > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
