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head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:54:55 +0800

Shouldn't head and tail's man pages mutually SEE ALSO?

Message #8 received at 22041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 22041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22041: head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:16:52 +0100

On 11/28/2015 08:54 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Shouldn't head and tail's man pages mutually SEE ALSO?

Thanks.
Good idea - the following patch does that.
I'll apply soon.

Have a nice day,
Berny

From 79c5b8f452ad01382c8e1d3e495a65428ae59b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:13:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: reference each other in the man pages of head and tail

* man/head.x: Add "SEE ALSO" section referencing tail(1).
* man/tail.x: Add "SEE ALSO" section referencing head(1).

Suggested by Dan Jacobson in http://bugs.gnu.org/22041
---
 man/head.x | 2 ++
 man/tail.x | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/head.x b/man/head.x
index 160d0ff..53d2662 100644
--- a/man/head.x
+++ b/man/head.x
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 head \- output the first part of files
 [DESCRIPTION]
 .\" Add any additional description here
+[SEE ALSO]
+tail(1)
diff --git a/man/tail.x b/man/tail.x
index 2ede04c..68f2782 100644
--- a/man/tail.x
+++ b/man/tail.x
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 tail \- output the last part of files
 [DESCRIPTION]
 .\" Add any additional description here
+[SEE ALSO]
+head(1)
-- 
2.1.4

Message #13 received at 22041-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, 22041-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22041: head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:08:11 +0100

On 11/28/2015 09:16 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/28/2015 08:54 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Shouldn't head and tail's man pages mutually SEE ALSO?
> 
> Thanks.
> Good idea - the following patch does that.

Pushed at:
  http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=79c5b8f

Marking this bug as done.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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