Re: How to use /usr/sbin/hardlink?

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <jdf lists gmail com>]

On 10/6/05, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:32:32PM +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> > Brian Long wrote:
> >
> > >Yup, very straight forward, but it sure would be nice in a man page like
> > >everything else in kernel-utils (except cpuspeed, which has another BZ
> > >filed)  :)
> > >
> > >
> > Agreed.   There's a lot of stuff that doesn't have man pages that
> > should.
>
> Start writing :-).  Submit to the package authors for verification and
> hopefully they'll get added in a future package update.  Even if you
> figure out only half the arguments, that's better than none.  The
> program author may be convinced to fill in the missing pieces if you get
> most of it done.

Even better, patch it so the help output actually details functionality. Most
of the GNU manpages (coreutils, etc.) are built using --help output
and the help2man perl script IIRC.