Manual pages: wording fix: "another" ==> "other"

In several pages, there is a consistent wording problem: "another"
where "other" should be used. This wording problem can be
surprisingly confusing for native speakers, especially those
unaware that in some other languages, "another" and "other" can be
expressed with the same word.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk.8 b/disk-utils/fdisk.8
index e84782c461c75204211210dac6643bd2bd2e4427..519bd6a5036255b060161ac4bd758614ae969520 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/fdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/fdisk.8
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ partition table before you write it to the device.
 And vice-versa it is possible to write the current in-memory disk layout
 to the script file by command 'O'.
 .PP
-The script files are compatible between cfdisk, sfdisk, fdisk and another
+The script files are compatible between cfdisk, sfdisk, fdisk and other
 libfdisk applications. For more details see
 .BR sfdisk (8).
 

diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
index 819efee90083d7569453802bf9208253bbe0ba5d..2f8afe88cb3163308e603a5d51afdc95984efbc4 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ partitions.
 
 .B sfdisk
 uses BLKRRPART (reread partition table) ioctl to make sure that the device is
-not used by system or another tools (see also \-\-no-reread).  It's possible that
+not used by system or other tools (see also \-\-no-reread).  It's possible that
 this feature or another sfdisk activity races with \fBudevd\fR.  The recommended way
 how to avoid possible collisions is to use \fB\-\-lock\fR option.
 The exclusive lock will cause udevd to skip the event handling on the device. 
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ GPT; a shortcut or an alias. It's recommended to use two letters for MBR hex cod
 avoid collision between deprecated shortcut 'E' and '0E' MBR hex code. For backward
 compatibility sfdisk tries to interpret
 .I type
-as a shortcut as a first possibility in partitioning scripts although on another places (e.g.
+as a shortcut as a first possibility in partitioning scripts although on other places (e.g.
 \fB\-\-part-type command)\fR it tries shortcuts as the last possibility.
 
 Since v2.36 libfdisk supports partition type aliases as extension to shortcuts. The alias is a

diff --git a/login-utils/runuser.1 b/login-utils/runuser.1
index 251a6d153e97d752cba774f5a0ad0ca8d3f1533d..7bcbbde12edeb6f792834e195b67c3c244d87959 100644 (file)
--- a/login-utils/runuser.1
+++ b/login-utils/runuser.1
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ in order to make the shell a login shell
 .BR \-P , " \-\-pty"
 Create pseudo-terminal for the session. The independent terminal provides
 better security as user does not share terminal with the original
-session.  This allow to avoid TIOCSTI ioctl terminal injection and another
+session.  This allow to avoid TIOCSTI ioctl terminal injection and other
 security attacks against terminal file descriptors. The all session is also
 possible to move to background (e.g., "runuser \-\-pty \-u username \-\- command &").
 If the pseudo-terminal is enabled then runuser command works

diff --git a/login-utils/su.1 b/login-utils/su.1
index 9e3154ea4a9fb0c76c4dc5f72eb69fca8d9cf5f5..1589eb4a3cd8f19546ce1fe5d3fe762254dd3660 100644 (file)
--- a/login-utils/su.1
+++ b/login-utils/su.1
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ This option is ignored if the option \fB\-\-login\fR is specified.
 .BR \-P , " \-\-pty"
 Create pseudo-terminal for the session. The independent terminal provides
 better security as user does not share terminal with the original
-session.  This allow to avoid TIOCSTI ioctl terminal injection and another
+session.  This allow to avoid TIOCSTI ioctl terminal injection and other
 security attacks against terminal file descriptors. The all session is also
 possible to move to background (e.g., "su \-\-pty \- username \-c
 application &"). If the pseudo-terminal is enabled then su command works

diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8
index 53becc42f50c44efe032a46f80e1e810971ceda6..57a3b754f2f7341be429375c5bf8f7b5313a1342 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/blkid.8
+++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ will print all of the devices that match the search parameter.
 This option forces
 .B blkid
 to use udev when used for LABEL or UUID tokens in \fB\-\-match\-token\fR. The
-goal is to provide output consistent with another utils (like mount, etc.)
+goal is to provide output consistent with other utils (like mount, etc.)
 on systems where the same tag is used for multiple devices.
 .TP
 \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-label\fR \fIlabel\fR

diff --git a/sys-utils/lsmem.1 b/sys-utils/lsmem.1
index 9d0b073982169c488e0b2be57f0290a48ead6727..2fe78b4c6fd4bc4b2217ae1aae27c3cf449a5dc3 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/lsmem.1
+++ b/sys-utils/lsmem.1
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ Produce output in raw format.  All potentially unsafe characters are hex-escaped
 .TP
 .BR \-S , " \-\-split " \fIlist\fP
 Specify which columns (attributes) use to split memory blocks to ranges.  The
-supported columns are STATE, REMOVABLE, NODE and ZONES, or "none". The another columns are
+supported columns are STATE, REMOVABLE, NODE and ZONES, or "none".
+The other columns are
 silently ignored. For more details see DESCRIPTION above.
 .TP
 .BR \-s , " \-\-sysroot " \fIdirectory\fP

diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index 94cb570a1cc2135148b107ff0c7826fcad5efa9d..ca1544c9ec9748e4cbe104e8f982fa3cfbcc4f15 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ command serves to attach the filesystem found on some device
 to the big file tree.  Conversely, the
 .BR umount (8)
 command will detach it again.  The filesystem is used to control how data is
-stored on the device or provided in a virtual way by network or another services.
+stored on the device or provided in a virtual way by network or other services.
 
 The standard form of the
 .B mount
@@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ will be writable, but the
 will be read-only.
 
 It's also possible to change nosuid, nodev, noexec, noatime, nodiratime and
-relatime VFS entry flags by "remount,bind" operation.  The another (for example
+relatime VFS entry flags by "remount,bind" operation.
+The other (for example
 filesystem specific flags) are silently ignored.  It's impossible to change mount
 options recursively (for example with \fB\-o rbind,ro\fR).
 
@@ -696,7 +697,7 @@ and calls
 .BR mount (2)
 system call, otherwise it runs in the original mount namespace.
 It means that the target namespace does not have
-to contain any libraries or another requirements necessary to execute
+to contain any libraries or other requirements necessary to execute
 .BR mount (2)
 command.
 .sp
@@ -1372,7 +1373,7 @@ system call.  The suggested format is \fBX-\fIappname\fR.\fIoption\fR.
 .TP
 .B x-*
 The same as \fBX-*\fR options, but stored permanently in the user space. It
-means the options are also available for umount or another operations.  Note
+means the options are also available for umount or other operations.  Note
 that maintain mount options in user space is tricky, because it's necessary use
 libmount based tools and there is no guarantee that the options will be always
 available (for example after a move mount operation or in unshared namespace).

diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.8 b/sys-utils/umount.8
index f04746211ee182e53626633caef5d6b22dca2849..ff26d413ef6e825c275d976dfb8605aa1a17b886 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/umount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/umount.8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ working directory there, or when a swap file on it is in use.  The
 offending process could even be
 .B umount
 itself - it opens libc, and libc in its turn may open for example locale
-files.  A lazy unmount avoids this problem, but it may introduce another
+files.  A lazy unmount avoids this problem, but it may introduce other
 issues. See \fB\-\-lazy\fR description below.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ and calls
 .BR umount (2)
 system call, otherwise it runs in the original namespace.
 It means that the target mount namespace does not have
-to contain any libraries or another requirements necessary to execute
+to contain any libraries or other requirements necessary to execute
 .BR umount (2)
 command.
 .sp
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ A \fBhelper=\fItype\fR marker in the mtab file will redirect
 all unmount requests
 to the \fB/sbin/umount.\fItype\fR helper independently of UID.
 .PP
-Note that \fI/etc/mtab\fR is currently deprecated and helper= and another
+Note that \fI/etc/mtab\fR is currently deprecated and helper= and other
 userspace mount options are maintained by libmount.
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 .IP LIBMOUNT_FSTAB=<path>

diff --git a/term-utils/scriptreplay.1 b/term-utils/scriptreplay.1
index a93b8a79067573fa35fa36fe99a550f74eaf7996..7f1487561ae07fa2a313c773861c8cd8143b12be 100644 (file)
--- a/term-utils/scriptreplay.1
+++ b/term-utils/scriptreplay.1
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Specifies how to use CR (0x0D, carriage return) character from log files.
 The default mode is
 .IR auto ,
 in this case CR is replaced with line break for stdin log, because otherwise
-scriptreplay will overwrite the same line.  The another modes are
+scriptreplay will overwrite the same line.  The other modes are
 .I never
 and
 .IR always .

diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1
index 5e4e29e68eb7acf730016d255d2b2887158d005d..634c1be846042b0a72eac0cb4372991adcda53e3 100644 (file)
--- a/text-utils/column.1
+++ b/text-utils/column.1
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Insert empty line to the table for each empty line on input. The default
 is ignore empty lines at all.
 .IP "\fB\-r, \-\-tree\fP \fIcolumn\fP"
 Specify column to use tree-like output. Note that the circular dependencies and
-another anomalies in child and parent relation are silently ignored.
+other anomalies in child and parent relation are silently ignored.
 .IP "\fB\-i, \-\-tree\-id\fP \fIcolumn\fP"
 Specify column with line ID to create child-parent relation.
 .IP "\fB\-p, \-\-tree\-parent\fP \fIcolumn\fP"