From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:19:05 +0000 (+0200) Subject: * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_5~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0db0def2d166b7a4e62a4a4980726abdc53dfd1;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length". Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre. --- diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 0e0b5c2a0b..7b97fc2b05 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2006-10-27 Jim Meyering + + * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which + the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length". + Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre. + 2006-10-23 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ee81792462..3cf34af9bb 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2950,7 +2950,8 @@ wc [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{} given as an argument, it prints the file name following the counts. If more than one @var{file} is given, @command{wc} prints a final line containing the cumulative counts, with the file name @file{total}. The -counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes. +counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes, +maximum line length. Each count is printed right-justified in a field with at least one space between fields so that the numbers and file names normally line up nicely in columns. The width of the count fields varies depending