From unknown Thu Jun 19 14:06:04 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#74205 <74205@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#74205 <74205@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: man: dots and closing bracket in wrong order Reply-To: bug#74205 <74205@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:06:04 +0000 retitle 74205 man: dots and closing bracket in wrong order reassign 74205 grep submitter 74205 Martin Schulte severity 74205 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Nov 04 15:28:52 2024 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2024 20:28:52 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42139 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1t83gy-0008KD-Dw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:28:52 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:50134) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1t83gu-0008K7-3i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:28:51 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t83gt-0003oh-7t for bug-grep@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:28:47 -0500 Received: from sb.ds-gmbh.de ([91.184.37.131]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t83gr-0001SS-JY for bug-grep@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:28:47 -0500 Received: from 185-232-103-115.xdsl.philuweb.net ([185.232.103.115] helo=martnix4.ds-gmbh.de) by sb.ds-gmbh.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t83gn-0005ie-IT for bug-grep@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:28:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 21:28:39 +0100 From: Martin Schulte To: bug-grep@gnu.org Subject: man: dots and closing bracket in wrong order Message-Id: <20241104212839.0f49ccddab40fe7bc67b4992@schrader-schulte.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=91.184.37.131; envelope-from=gnu@schrader-schulte.de; helo=sb.ds-gmbh.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) Hello, it doesn't harm but I always stumple when I read the SYNOPSIS in grep's man page where - in contrast to the usage message - the dots and the closing are in the wrong order compared to "all" other man pages: $ man grep | head GREP(1) User Commands GREP(1) NAME grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep - print lines that match patterns SYNOPSIS grep [OPTION...] PATTERNS [FILE...] grep [OPTION...] -e PATTERNS ... [FILE...] grep [OPTION...] -f PATTERN_FILE ... [FILE...] $ grep Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]... Try 'grep --help' for more information. 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