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authorhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-06-21 19:52:09 +0000
committerhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-06-21 19:52:09 +0000
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parent3d09e3478e6a15a90f52c2412d260751cc4d0147 (diff)
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Don't strip trailing .suffixes from filenames. Although obviously
intentional, this behaviour is far too obnoxious given the number of filenames such as rpc.statd we have. Submitted by: Chris Costello [3]chris@calldei.com (bin/11303)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1 b/usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1
index 637cca1..b569301 100644
--- a/usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1
+++ b/usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
.\"
-.\" $Id: whereis.1,v 1.5 1998/05/15 11:22:40 jkoshy Exp $
+.\" $Id: whereis.1,v 1.6 1998/08/31 16:41:08 wosch Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 15, 1996
.Dt WHEREIS 1
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ The
utility checks the standard binary, manual page, and source
directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any
it finds. The supplied names are first stripped of leading path name
-components, any single trailing extension of the form
-.Ql .ext ,
+components, any single trailing extension added by
+.Xr gzip 1
+or
+.Xr compress 1 ,
and the leading
.Ql s.
or trailing
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