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Re: Does anyone use checknr(1)?




> On May 24, 2024, at 13:01, Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found /usr/bin/checknr and tried it:
> 
> $ checknr /usr/share/man/man1/*.1
> 
> It spit out an enormous amount of error messages and crashed on 68 of
> the files. Its source code hasn't essentially been modified for 18
> years, and the code still contains several out-of-bounds memory
> accesses, after some half-hearted attempts to fix them.
> 
> Does anyone use this tool? Is it worth keeping?
> 
> If it's worth keeping it, I could invest some time in making it
> bullet-proof, but I don't want to waste time like I did for indent(1).

Am I the only person who uses indent(1)?

-bch


> 
> Roland


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