[iproute PATCH] man: ip, ip-link: Fix ip option location

[iproute PATCH] man: ip, ip-link: Fix ip option location

[Phil Sutter]

This patch drops the redundant description of some of ip's options in
ip-link.8's description of the 'show' subcommand, preserving the
description of -iec (but appending it to the list in ip.8 with minor
fixes).

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 21 ---------------------
 man/man8/ip.8         |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index 984fb2eb0d63a..d3881e55d73c0 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -1119,27 +1119,6 @@ specifies the master device which enslaves devices to show.
 .I TYPE
 specifies the type of devices to show.
 
-.TP
-The show command has additional formatting options:
-
-.RS
-.TP
-.BR "\-s" , " \-stats", " \-statistics"
-output more statistics about packet usage.
-
-.TP
-.BR "\-d", " \-details"
-output more detailed information.
-
-.TP
-.BR "\-h", " \-human", " \-human-readable"
-output statistics with human readable values number followed by suffix
-
-.TP
-.BR "\-iec"
-print human readable rates in IEC units (ie. 1K = 1024).
-.RE
-
 .SS  ip link help - display help
 
 .PP
diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index aa2bc68c81ab6..f11fc0b9cf444 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ but use shorter format.
 .BR "\-rc" , " \-rcvbuf" <SIZE>
 Set the netlink socket receive buffer size, defaults to 1MB.
 
+.TP
+.BR "\-iec"
+print human readable rates in IEC units (e.g. 1Ki = 1024).
+
 .SH IP - COMMAND SYNTAX
 
 .SS
-- 
2.8.2

Re: [iproute PATCH] man: ip, ip-link: Fix ip option location

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 30 May 2016 20:46:27 +0200
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:

> This patch drops the redundant description of some of ip's options in
> ip-link.8's description of the 'show' subcommand, preserving the
> description of -iec (but appending it to the list in ip.8 with minor
> fixes).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

Applied