Hi all, Why do some pages use \:/ for the slash in the path part of a URL, but some others don't, and just use /? Moreover, why do the former use \:/ only for the path, but not for the protocol? $ grep -n '^\.UR' man7/uri.7; 173:.UR http://www.w3.org\:/CGI 243:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc1036.txt 383:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2255.txt 396:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2253.txt 414:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2254.txt 456:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc1625.txt 555:.UR http://www.fwi.uva.nl\:/\(times\:/jargon\:/h\:/HackerWritingStyle.html 583:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2396.txt 586:.UR http://www.w3.org\:/TR\:/REC\-html40 707:.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2255.txt $ $ grep -Inr '^\.UR' man? \ |grep -c '\\:/'; 56 $ $ grep -Inr '^\.UR' man? \ |grep -c -v '\\:/'; 41 $ $ grep -Inr '^\.UR' man? \ |grep '\\:/' \ |head -n1; man2/futex.2:1910:.UR http://kernel.org\:/doc\:/ols\:/2002\:/ols2002\-pages\-479\-495.pdf $ $ grep -Inr '^\.UR' man? \ |grep -v '\\:/' \ |head -n1; man1/memusage.1:206:.UR http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html $ What is the correct form? Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
