From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: tail: fix description of --bytes=N (-c)
X-Git-Tag: v7.1~123
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c318d52de2ae0edd8584bdc53562c10f8bd984b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: tail: fix description of --bytes=N (-c)

* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Use @var{n} consistently,
not a mix of that and @var{bytes}.  Reported by anonymous
in <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24934>.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 07dba34b97..092574855c 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2696,11 +2696,11 @@ The program accepts the following options.  Also see @ref{Common options}.
 
 @table @samp
 
-@item -c @var{bytes}
-@itemx --bytes=@var{bytes}
+@item -c @var{n}
+@itemx --bytes=@var{n}
 @opindex -c
 @opindex --bytes
-Output the last @var{bytes} bytes, instead of final lines.
+Output the last @var{n} bytes, instead of final lines.
 However, if @var{n} starts with a @samp{+}, start printing with the
 @var{n}th byte from the start of each file, instead of from the end.
 Appending @samp{b} multiplies @var{bytes} by 512,