* [PATCH iproute2] Add information about COLORFGBG to ip.8 man page
@ 2017-09-15 20:04 Roland Hopferwieser
2017-09-21 0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Roland Hopferwieser @ 2017-09-15 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
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"
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* Re: [PATCH iproute2] Add information about COLORFGBG to ip.8 man page
2017-09-15 20:04 [PATCH iproute2] Add information about COLORFGBG to ip.8 man page Roland Hopferwieser
@ 2017-09-21 0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-09-26 23:46 ` Roland Hopferwieser
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2017-09-21 0:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roland Hopferwieser; +Cc: netdev
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 22:04:16 +0200
Roland Hopferwieser <rhopfer@ica•jku.at> 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
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* Re: [PATCH iproute2] Add information about COLORFGBG to ip.8 man page
2017-09-21 0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2017-09-26 23:46 ` Roland Hopferwieser
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Roland Hopferwieser @ 2017-09-26 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev
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> Your patch was damaged by the mailer you used.
> Please fix and resubmit.
Sorry, now as attachment.
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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"
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