* Support versions of man that don't use -l.

[code/myrepos.git] / mr

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index ba29b40736def747049d46fd85304150520105d4..f4a93b6472b779db3fa8902a180c05de157a699a 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ B<mr> [options] action [params ...]
 
 B<mr> is a Multiple Repository management tool. It can checkout, update, or
 perform other actions on a set of repositories as if they were one combined
-respository. It supports any combination of subversion, git, cvs, mecurial,
+repository. It supports any combination of subversion, git, cvs, mecurial,
 bzr and darcs repositories, and support for other revision control systems can
 easily be added.
 
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ Displays this help.
 
 =back
 
-Actions can be abbreviated to any unambiguous subsctring, so
-"mr st" is equivilant to "mr status", and "mr up" is equivilant to "mr
+Actions can be abbreviated to any unambiguous substring, so
+"mr st" is equivalent to "mr status", and "mr up" is equivalent to "mr
 update"
 
 Additional parameters can be passed to most commands, and are passed on
@@ -1250,7 +1250,10 @@ help =
        if [ ! -e "$MR_PATH" ]; then
                error "cannot find program path"
        fi
-       (pod2man -c mr "$MR_PATH" | man -l -) || error "pod2man or man failed"
+       tmp=$(mktemp -t mr.XXXXXXXXXX) || error "mktemp failed"
+       trap "rm -f $tmp" exit
+       pod2man -c mr "$MR_PATH" > "$tmp" || error "pod2man failed"
+       man -l "$tmp" || error "man failed"
 list = true
 config =