[room] Fwd: Longest man-page?

[Michael Shigorin]

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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:42:30 +0200
From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang/gmail.com>
To: sounder/lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Longest man-page?

Hello,
One time going through our not-so-friendly man-pages, I could not
believe that mplayer's man-page is over 6,000 lines long. Then I
checked gcc because I knew it couldn't be beaten, and there it was
with over  10,000 lines. Is there anything out there even larger?
Thanks...

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----- Forwarded message from Colin Watson <cjwatson/ubuntu.com> -----

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:23:08 +0000
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson/ubuntu.com>
To: sounder/lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Longest man-page?

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:14:52AM +0800, John wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >for man in man?/*.gz; do
> >	echo $(gunzip -c $man | wc -l)"\t"$man
> >done | sort -n
> >
> >
> >8624    man1/mplayer.1.gz
> >8778    man1/bash.1.gz
> >10724   man1/gcc-3.4.1.gz
> >137894  man4/ethereal-filter.4.gz
> 
> How you count matters:
> [summer/bilby ~]$ man perltoc | wc -l
> 12147
> [summer/bilby ~]$ man ethereal-filter | wc -l
> 64002
> [summer/bilby ~]$

Indeed, sometimes dramatically so:

  <cjwatson/cairhien ~>$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/zshall.1.gz | wc -l
  530
  <cjwatson/cairhien ~>$ man zshall | wc -l
  Reformatting zshall(1), please wait...
  19798

(zshall(1) uses an include mechanism to pull in several other zsh* man
pages.)

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