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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...

If 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.

Who even installs man on production and why though... Gotta be some janky dev-on-prod situation.

Maybe 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.

I can imagine using man to generate random but realistic text in a test.

MANROFFSEQ= MANPAGER=cat man sprintf

Turns out this gives some unprintable characters.

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