From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Cc: Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] last: mention optional arguments in usage
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:59:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520A9016.8040208@bernhard-voelker.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376408542.14036.9332767.314B2850@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On 08/13/2013 05:42 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013, at 17:09, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> - " %s [options]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
>> + " %s [options] [name...]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
>
> Better use angular-brackets convention right away: "[<name>...]".
Correct. I just did it as in the man page, therefore that
one should also be fixed.
However, I'm not that happy with it anyway, because <name> can
either be a username or a terminal name, e.g. 'last root tty0',
and '<name>' does not describe that too well.
Any idea - besides falling back to the old '[<username>..] [tty..]'
(which isn't too bad IMO)?
Have a nice day,
Berny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-13 15:09 [PATCH] last: mention optional arguments in usage Bernhard Voelker
2013-08-13 15:42 ` Benno Schulenberg
2013-08-13 19:59 ` Bernhard Voelker [this message]
2013-08-14 8:34 ` Benno Schulenberg
2013-08-23 10:02 ` Karel Zak
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