Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:45:46AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> >> help2man -h "" $program will probably do the trick.
> >
> > No:
> >
> > $ help2man -h "" help2man
> > help2man: can't get `' info from help2man
> 
> That happens because help2man without arguments will output to stderr.
> Add --no-discard-stderr, and it will just work. Or try with a program
> that outputs to stdout.
> 
> It does do the trick.

Seems the combination of both `-h ""` AND `--no-discard-stderr` .
 
> > $ reportbug help2man
> >
> > may help to make it work one day.
> 
> Or you can read the full output of the command you pasted:
> 
> | algernon@luthien:~$ help2man -h "" help2man
> | help2man: can't get `' info from help2man
> | Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr

I admit I would prefer if help2man would have a more simple way to
specify this.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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