Re: Strange apropos(1) behavior?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2019, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Should it be possible to use both the -l (legacy mode) option and specify a 
> specific section -[1-9] ?
>
> # apropos -l -8 specific
> apropos: no such table: mandb
> apropos: No relevant results obtained.
> Please make sure that you spelled all the terms correctly or try using 
> different keywords.

And another anomaly:

# apropos -p specific
apropos: Cannot allocate 140187716927593 bytes: Cannot allocate memory

And while we're at it, the man page for apropos(1) says that the -p 
option _defaults_ to using more(1) as the pager, implying that it should 
be possible to use a different pager.  Yet there is no option to tell 
apropos to which other pager the output should be piped!

And finally, the -P option is documented in the apropos(1) man page as 
also "Turn on pager formatting".  Is this correct?  Or should one of 
these two options be a "Turn _off_ pager formatting" ?  :)



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