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Did ANYONE have "automated man calls" on their devops bingo card? I still don't understand what they were trying to accomplish...
by elif 2y ago
Did ANYONE have "automated man calls" on their devops bingo card?
I still don't understand what they were trying to accomplish...
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoIf you read the linked question, they say that they were testing the output of "man -w" which prints the path of man pages. I can easily see that as a test for deployment image generation where you want to fiddle with the available man pages and test whether they will be accessible.
- elif 2y agoWho even installs man on production and why though... Gotta be some janky dev-on-prod situation.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoMaybe you are building images for your employees to use while developing ? Maybe you are building an educational distro image that is accompanied with your product ? I can think of many things, so who knows.
- dbtablesorrows 2y agoI can imagine using man to generate random but realistic text in a test. MANROFFSEQ= MANPAGER=cat man sprintf
- dbtablesorrows 2y agoTurns out this gives some unprintable characters.