Help page for commands using sudo performs "man sudo" instead of "man COMMANDNAME"

Bug #611145 reported by Mitch Towner
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
CLI Companion
Fix Released
Medium
CLI Companion Development Team

Bug Description

When selecting the help button for commands that include 'sudo' at the start of the command, CLIcompanion should ignore the 'sudo' at the start of the command.

Example:
Encountered Behaviour:
Select the "sudo iwlist" command & press the help button. CLIcompanion performs "man sudo".

Expected Behaviour:
Select the "sudo iwlist" command & press the help button. CLIcompanion performs "man iwlist".

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Changed in clicompanion:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → CLIcompanion Development Team (clicompanion-devs)
Kenny Meyer (knny-myer)
Changed in clicompanion:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
naesk (naesk) wrote :

In version 1.0rc this seems to work as expected :)

Revision history for this message
Mitch Towner (kermiac) wrote :

I can confirm that this is fixed in the latest release published in the PPA. Thanks for your work on this Kenny :)

$ apt-cache policy clicompanion
clicompanion:
  Installed: 1.0-2
  Candidate: 1.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.0-2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/clicompanion-devs/clicompanion-nightlies/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

David Caro (dcaro)
Changed in clicompanion:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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