If we are going for technical correctness... Anything being broken by this is relying on the output of man with no arguments which is not documented as far as I can see, other than that it should have exit code 0.
Where is the boundary between responsible and harmless fun?
Perhaps I should be careful not to edit this comment in case someone's test pipeline curls it and checks the content.
To be clear, he original stack exchange post was calling “man -w” which does have defined behavior. The maintainer of man fixed it at that point to only happen with the bare “man”.
Where is the boundary between responsible and harmless fun?
Perhaps I should be careful not to edit this comment in case someone's test pipeline curls it and checks the content.