From: Eric Blake Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:00:12 +0000 (-0600) Subject: tail: tweak usage for more clarity X-Git-Tag: v8.1~105 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f25273d7f1dd0f8aa6e839b2201e61222061efae;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git tail: tweak usage for more clarity * src/tail.c (usage): Spell out -n +K. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski. --- diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 65ac1bb4f9..29013f6000 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ Jan Engelhardt jengelh@medozas.de Jan Fedak J.Fedak@sh.cvut.cz Jan Moringen jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org +Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski jpwroz@gmail.com Janos Farkas chexum@shadow.banki.hu Jarkko Hietaniemi jhi@epsilon.hut.fi Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index f3fe6a3418..b6ad2905e1 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.\n\ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ - -c, --bytes=K output the last K bytes; alternatively, use +K to\n\ - output bytes starting with the Kth of each file\n\ + -c, --bytes=K output the last K bytes; alternatively, use -c +K\n + to output bytes starting with the Kth of each file\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]\n\ @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ "), stdout); printf (_("\ -n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last %d;\n\ - or use +K to output lines starting with the Kth\n\ + or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth\n\ --max-unchanged-stats=N\n\ with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not\n\ changed size after N (default %d) iterations\n\