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External commands manual page

External commands manual page

From:
Jack Nagel
Date:
2011-09-09 @ 01:25
Hey list,

After some discussion in the issue tracker, I've gone ahead and documented
the external commands that ship with Homebrew on the wiki.

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands-Manual

A few notes:

 - I've omitted several commands (`man`, `missing`, `server` and `which`, to
   be specific) from the wiki page because they are actually already in the
   brew(1) man page (or in the case of `man`, have their own man page) and I
   didn't think that they needed to be documented more than once.

 - I am considering combining this page with (at least some of the material
   from) the existing "External Commands" page, but I haven't decided what
   the best way to do that is yet.

 - Feel free to fix typos, point out things I missed content-wise, etc, but
   I've tried to follow the man page format as much as is possible on a
   Markdown-formatted wiki page, and I'd like to preserve that aspect of it.

Happy brewing.

Jack

Re: External commands manual page

From:
Jack Nagel
Date:
2011-09-10 @ 20:59
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com> wrote:
> After some discussion in the issue tracker, I've gone ahead and documented
> the external commands that ship with Homebrew on the wiki.
>
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands-Manual

FYI, I've cleaned up the existing External Commands page and combined the two:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands

Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page

From:
Max Howell
Date:
2011-09-10 @ 10:35
Great, thanks Jack.

Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone 
object to removing it?

> Hey list,
> 
> After some discussion in the issue tracker, I've gone ahead and documented
> the external commands that ship with Homebrew on the wiki.
> 
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands-Manual
> 
> A few notes:
> 
> - I've omitted several commands (`man`, `missing`, `server` and `which`, to
>   be specific) from the wiki page because they are actually already in the
>   brew(1) man page (or in the case of `man`, have their own man page) and I
>   didn't think that they needed to be documented more than once.
> 
> - I am considering combining this page with (at least some of the material
>   from) the existing "External Commands" page, but I haven't decided what
>   the best way to do that is yet.
> 
> - Feel free to fix typos, point out things I missed content-wise, etc, but
>   I've tried to follow the man page format as much as is possible on a
>   Markdown-formatted wiki page, and I'd like to preserve that aspect of it.
> 
> Happy brewing.
> 
> Jack

Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page

From:
Jack Nagel
Date:
2011-09-10 @ 18:36
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Max Howell <max@methylblue.com> wrote:
> Great, thanks Jack.
>
> Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone 
object to removing it?

Not at all.

Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page

From:
Trevor Wennblom
Date:
2011-09-10 @ 11:13
On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Max Howell wrote:

> Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone 
object to removing it?

certainly no objection, but there is 'man man' - /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz