Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Add information about COLORFGBG to ip.8 man page

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:56:33 -0700

On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:16 +0200
Roland Hopferwieser <[email-masked]> wrote:

> diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
> index ae018fdf..2a27a56e 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip.8
> +++ b/man/man8/ip.8
> @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ executes specified command over all objects, it 
> depends if command supports this
> 
>   .TP
>   .BR "\-c" , " -color"
> -Use color output.
> +Use color output. The color palette is affected by the COLORFGBG 
> environment variable, which typically has the form "fg;bg".
> +If "bg" is set to 0-6 or 8, the dark color palette is used.
> 
>   .TP
>   .BR "\-t" , " \-timestamp"

Your patch was damaged by the mailer you used.
Please fix and resubmit.

$ patch -p1 < ~/Downloads/iproute2-Add-information-about-COLORFGBG-to-ip.8-man-page.patch 
patching file man/man8/ip.8
patch: **** malformed patch at line 23: depends if command supports this