On 27 Feb 2017 15:16, Marcus Geiger wrote:
> in the examples section of `man 1 getopts`, every dash/minus used in the
> example code cannot be parsed by bash. vi claims it's 0x2212 instead of 0x2d.
> 
> I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with bash 4.3.46(1)-release. Unfortunately I couldn't find
> the source code for this man page, but the current online pages entry also has
> this problem: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getopts.1p.html
> 
> The containing package is:
> 
>    $ dpkg -S $(man -w 1 getopts)
>    manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/getopts.1posix.gz

looks like a bug in the man page itself.  it uses \(mi instead of \- in
the example code.  might be an artifact of the conversion process though
as iirc, the posix pages are generated.
-mike