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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-10-09 02:20:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-10-09 02:20:40 +0000 |
| commit | ce0715cf51a64171cc80629f40da0609374fe3d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fe2f19553176f19b3575472bae0ffe08d4fb877 /usr.bin/which | |
| parent | 4112eb4aff32d1e1fc5aa1cdc7e575fc5b586833 (diff) | |
Correct the history of apropos(1), whatis(1) and whereis(1): These
utilities were already part of 2BSD. Also credit Bill Joy as the author.
Document the HISTORY of options.
Say a bit more about the fate of whereis(1).
All information found on http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
and in the OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD CVS trees.
Using feedback from jmc@.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/which')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/which/whereis.1 | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/which/which.1 | 10 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/which/whereis.1 b/usr.bin/which/whereis.1 index f40ee6ef40d..6ae72f955b7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/which/whereis.1 +++ b/usr.bin/which/whereis.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: whereis.1,v 1.13 2010/09/29 07:44:57 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: whereis.1,v 1.14 2011/10/09 02:20:39 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.4 1995/08/31 21:54:51 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 29 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 9 2011 $ .Dt WHEREIS 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -77,12 +77,20 @@ No names were resolved. .Xr locate 1 , .Xr which 1 , .Xr sysctl 8 -.Sh STANDARDS -The historic flags and arguments for the -.Nm -utility are no longer available in this version. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in -.Bx 3.0 . +command first appeared in +.Bx 2 , +but the original version was legally tainted +and was not included as part of the +.Bx 4.4 +release, such that most of the original functionality was lost. +.Pp +The +.Fl a +option first appeared in +.Ox 2.3 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The original version was written by +.An Bill Joy . diff --git a/usr.bin/which/which.1 b/usr.bin/which/which.1 index 55a05e42dbf..13430e6bf16 100644 --- a/usr.bin/which/which.1 +++ b/usr.bin/which/which.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.21 2010/09/29 07:44:57 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.22 2011/10/09 02:20:39 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)which.1 6.3 (Berkeley) 4/23/91 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 29 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 9 2011 $ .Dt WHICH 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -93,5 +93,9 @@ though with a different syntax. .Sh HISTORY A .Nm -command appeared in +command first appeared in .Bx 3.0 . +The +.Fl a +option first appeared in +.Ox 2.3 . |