On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:55:07PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > While I'm looking at the man page, a minor clarification. > > "All long options are provided" can be read to mean that every gnu option is > provided. This is not intended, and a simple reordering makes things clearer > imo. >
it is a little ambiguous, yes. but i think "all long options provided are for compatibility" probably sounds less clumsy than "all provided long options are for compatability". but whatever. you could even just remove "provided". jmc > > Index: grep.1 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/grep/grep.1,v > retrieving revision 1.49 > diff -u -p -r1.49 grep.1 > --- grep.1 7 Oct 2019 20:51:34 -0000 1.49 > +++ grep.1 7 Oct 2019 20:53:26 -0000 > @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ are extensions to that specification, an > .Fl f > flag when used with an empty pattern file is left undefined. > .Pp > -All long options are provided for compatibility with > +All provided long options are for compatibility with > GNU versions of this utility. > .Pp > Historic versions of the >
