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When ‘--help’ is given, just run ‘man’ to show the manual page

I.e. do what git does.  I'm too lazy to keep the builtin help text up
to date :-)

Also add ‘--help’ to various commands that lacked it
(e.g. nix-collect-garbage).
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-10-03 16:37:06 -04:00
parent 9c41c66c5b
commit a562d544d8
25 changed files with 51 additions and 329 deletions

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@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ string getArg(const string & opt,
return *i;
}
/* Initialize and reorder arguments, then call the actual argument
processor. */
static void initAndRun(int argc, char * * argv)
@ -275,6 +276,14 @@ static void * oomHandler(size_t requested)
}
void showManPage(const string & name)
{
string cmd = "man " + name;
if (system(cmd.c_str()) != 0)
throw Error(format("command `%1%' failed") % cmd);
}
int exitCode = 0;
char * * argvSaved = 0;

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@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ template<class N> N getIntArg(const string & opt,
return n;
}
/* Show the manual page for the specified program. */
void showManPage(const string & name);
/* Whether we're running setuid. */
extern bool setuidMode;