From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] more: comply with howto-usage-function.txt
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:15:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1391879755-11534-1-git-send-email-psusi@ubuntu.com> (raw)
Add angle brackets around the -<num> argument to make it
clear that this is a number, and not the word "NUM"
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
---
text-utils/more.1 | 4 ++--
text-utils/more.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/text-utils/more.1 b/text-utils/more.1
index 479f037..b6b6585 100644
--- a/text-utils/more.1
+++ b/text-utils/more.1
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ environment variable
override them.
.It Fl num
.TP
-.B \-number
+.B \-<number>
This option specifies an integer
.I number
which is the screen size (in lines).
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ The
option specifies a string that will be searched for before each file is
displayed.
.TP
-.B +number
+.B +<number>
Start at line
.IR number .
.SH COMMANDS
diff --git a/text-utils/more.c b/text-utils/more.c
index 4c39887..1a93257 100644
--- a/text-utils/more.c
+++ b/text-utils/more.c
@@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
" -c do not scroll, display text and clean line ends\n"
" -u suppress underlining\n"
" -s squeeze multiple blank lines into one\n"
- " -NUM specify the number of lines per screenful\n"
- " +NUM display file beginning from line number NUM\n"
+ " -<NUM> specify NUM number of lines per screenful\n"
+ " +<NUM> display file beginning from line number NUM\n"
" +/STRING display file beginning from search string match\n"
" -V output version information and exit\n"));
exit(out == stderr ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS);
--
1.8.3.2
next reply other threads:[~2014-02-08 17:15 UTC|newest]
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2014-02-08 17:15 Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-02-09 10:43 ` [PATCH] more: comply with howto-usage-function.txt Benno Schulenberg
2014-02-21 10:58 ` Karel Zak
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