Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute2: split up ip man page?

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 21:46:38 +0000

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 13:15 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The current ip man page is both incomplete and so big that
> the actual functions get lost easily.
> 
> I propose splitting the the pages for the subfunction
> into sub pages. The man command appears
> to be smart enough to handle:
>   man tc htb

Or, for another familiar example, 'man git diff'.

Oddly enough, man(1) only describes this under the '--no-subpages'
option which turns off the behaviour.

> and pickup the manpage for /usr/share/man/man1/tc-htb.8.gz
> Why not do the same thing for ip command?
> 
> The base ip page would just be a place holder that covered the
> generic arguments.

Sounds like a very sensible change.

Ben.

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