dmesg: improve grammar and consistency of usage text

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>

diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.c b/sys-utils/dmesg.c
index 0bf77af8db911d0b1e410cf540bffcfb5a45f2e7..99cf26e37e92d657f635626866670f5a4fa1b501 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/dmesg.c
+++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.c
@@ -289,9 +289,9 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
        fputs(_(" -x, --decode                decode facility and level to readable string\n"), out);
        fputs(_(" -d, --show-delta            show time delta between printed messages\n"), out);
        fputs(_(" -e, --reltime               show local time and time delta in readable format\n"), out);
-       fputs(_(" -T, --ctime                 show human readable timestamp (may be inaccurate!)\n"), out);
-       fputs(_(" -t, --notime                don't print messages timestamp\n"), out);
-       fputs(_("     --time-format <format>  show time stamp using format:\n"
+       fputs(_(" -T, --ctime                 show human-readable timestamp (may be inaccurate!)\n"), out);
+       fputs(_(" -t, --notime                don't show any timestamp with messages\n"), out);
+       fputs(_("     --time-format <format>  show timestamp using the given format:\n"
                "                               [delta|reltime|ctime|notime|iso]\n"
                "Suspending/resume will make ctime and iso timestamps inaccurate.\n"), out);
        fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out);