[plug] The meaning of life

[John H]

slarti at slartibartfast:~$ whatis "life, the universe and everything" | wc -c
     56
john h

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 04:43 pm, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:12:16PM +0800, tcleary2 at csc.com.au wrote:
> ...
>
> > Is this a shell dependent thing? ( i.e. can someone test something other
> > than bash or derivatives? )
>
> No, it's dependent on the man implementation.  Debian has something
> called man-db (version 2.4.1-10 on my system), RedHat 9 has man 1.5k,
> OpenBSD has their own version derived from the BSD sources, and others
> have different ones.  Many of them have a common ancestry, but
> programmers, managers and documentation teams have changed messages
> along the way.

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