help command doesn't work in macOS

[russelldavis]

The man command in macOS doesn't support the -l option.

$ encpass.sh help
man: invalid option -- l
man, version 1.6g

usage: man [-adfhktwW] [section] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
	[-m system] [-p string] name ...

[ahnick]

@russelldavis Thanks for this. I had assumed (incorrectly) this was a standard flag across man implementations. Does macOS use a different flag or is there a typical workaround you are aware of? If not, then I think I can fallback to stripping the man page formatting and outputting to less.

[russelldavis]

Unfortunately I don't see any equivalent flag. I'm guessing there's probably a workaround, but nothing jumps out at me right away. For reference, the manpage is here: https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/man

[ahnick]

@russelldavis I just pushed a branch called "help" (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/tree/help) to attempt to emulate what man does when the -l option is not available. It should also strip the formatting and directly output to less if man is missing on the system.

If you have a moment and wouldn't mind pulling the branch down and testing on Mac I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[russelldavis]

Just tried it, works great! Thanks.

[ahnick]

Great, thanks for confirming. I have pushed to master and published a new release. Marking as closed.