Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>From 9228e10c4c68ffd585bbb6e5fd7efbab6f6c5f97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:54:07 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Clarify field delimiter description in uniq --help output > > * src/uniq.c: Clarify in help output that field delimiters are blanks and > not the larger set of whitespace characters. >
> Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > src/uniq.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c > index 1a54055..3dac9ee 100644 > --- a/src/uniq.c > +++ b/src/uniq.c > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for > short options too.\n\ > fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); > fputs (_("\ > \n\ > -A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters.\n\ > +A field is a run of spaces or tabs, then non-blank characters.\n\ > Fields are skipped before chars.\n\ > "), stdout); > fputs (_("\
Hi Pádraig, Thanks! Your summary is right, but the --help change is slightly inaccurate, since "blank" can mean more than just SPC or TAB. How about this instead: (I also wrapped the log lines to 72 columns) >From d275a2bfcb34ba9e12543b5c7b138550976ec235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:54:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify field delimiter description in uniq --help output * src/uniq.c: Clarify in help output that field delimiters are blanks and not the larger set of whitespace characters. --- src/uniq.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c index b167bbb..4f0d5c0 100644 --- a/src/uniq.c +++ b/src/uniq.c @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); fputs (_("\ \n\ -A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters.\n\ +A field is a run of blanks, then non-blank characters.\n\ Fields are skipped before chars.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -- 1.5.5.1.249.g68ef3
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