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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:43:13 +0100
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 30785@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:24:46PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>   $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   $
> 
> There's also some stderr...
>   <standard input>:25: error: end of file while defining macro `UNINDENT'

with Guix on Debian (git commit 464f5447396fcec9b43f7eab71d5d42b522a157f),
I am not seeing this problem:
$ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
NAME
DESCRIPTION

and no stderr. This uses the "man" binary from Debian (/usr/bin/man) and
/gnu/store/a9w7mm0mrgrakl9khmi91ybp34ly4iqc-knot-2.6.5/share/man/man5/knot.conf.5.gz

What is your distribution? Could it be that the problem is in the "man" binary and
not in the man page?

Actually, also this does work:
$ /gnu/store/kh2av28w5rd3fbidqssp0fzv661hb9l5-man-db-2.7.6.1/bin/man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
NAME
DESCRIPTION

Maybe your store is corrupted?

Or did I misunderstand the problem?

Andreas