Re: [PATCH iproute2 2/4] man: add more keywords to ip.8 short description
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2017-12-30 04:02:26
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:01:23 +0100 Luca Boccassi [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
A Debian user suggested adding more network-related keywords to the ip manpage, so that manpage-scraping and indexing software like apropos can do a better job of categorizing the programs. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877983 Suggested-by: Lynoure Braakman <redacted> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <redacted> --- man/man8/ip.8 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 index ae018fdf..94e64319 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH IP 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux" .SH NAME -ip \- show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels +ip \- show / manipulate routing, network devices, policy routing, interfaces (ethernet and more) and tunnels
Let's just keep it short and drop out policy routing (since that is part of routing anyway and drop the (ethernet and more).