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RE: man unsafe shell command


--- Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> > 
> > > When I run the man command on a file in a local
> > > directory, I get
> > >
> > > not executing command:
> > >   <unsafe shell command>
> 
> <SNIP>
> > Exactly which man page fails?  Could you possibly
> attach the failing one,
> > along with the exact command to reproduce the
> failure?  Also, when
> > invoking man, you don't give it the actual man
> page, AFAIK, but the name
> > of the command...
> > 	Igor
> 
> 
>
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01661.html
> 

Thanks.  From what I see, the problem is internal to
man.  But here is some more info:

$ man zip 
=> works

$ cp /usr/share/man/man1/zip.1 ~/local/man/man1
$ cd ~/local/man/man1
$ man ./zip.1
=> Error

$ cd /usr/share/man/man1
$ man ./zip.1
=> Works

>From the above, the error is not in the man page
itself, but in the path (i.e., it works in some
directories and not in others).

Thanks for the help.


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