textual: fix a few typos in some of the usage help texts

Also improve clarity of some other lines of those texts.

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

diff --git a/misc-utils/look.c b/misc-utils/look.c
index 351d0072a8b790875b7bfd10d7884c265cbd82fd..7bbec1b206f443dd9c58ff5ae63cc59518ac4368 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/look.c
+++ b/misc-utils/look.c
@@ -370,9 +370,9 @@ static void __attribute__ ((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE * out)
              _(" %s [options] string [file]\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
 
        fputs(_("\nOptions:\n"), out);
-       fputs(_(" -a, --alternative      use alternate dictionary\n"
-               " -d, --alphanum         compare only alpha numeric characters\n"
-               " -f, --ignore-case      ignore when comparing\n"
+       fputs(_(" -a, --alternative      use alternative dictionary\n"
+               " -d, --alphanum         compare only alphanumeric characters\n"
+               " -f, --ignore-case      ignore case differences when comparing\n"
                " -t, --terminate <char> define string termination character\n"
                " -V, --version          output version information and exit\n"
                " -h, --help             display this help and exit\n\n"), out);

diff --git a/misc-utils/whereis.c b/misc-utils/whereis.c
index ae4cc03286d0e8b1156f971d187f196ee23055bf..095ca6282d01b976e1560085d7128ba9140ef643 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/whereis.c
+++ b/misc-utils/whereis.c
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ static void __attribute__ ((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE * out)
 
        fputs(_("\nOptions:\n"), out);
        fputs(_(" -f <file>  define search scope\n"
-               " -b         search only binaries\n"
+               " -b         search only for binaries\n"
                " -B <dirs>  define binaries lookup path\n"
-               " -m         search only manual paths\n"
+               " -m         search only for manuals\n"
                " -M <dirs>  define man lookup path\n"
-               " -s         search only sources path\n"
+               " -s         search only for sources\n"
                " -S <dirs>  define sources lookup path\n"
-               " -u         search from unusual entities\n"
+               " -u         search for unusual entries\n"
                " -V         output version information and exit\n"
                " -h         display this help and exit\n\n"), out);
 

diff --git a/text-utils/more.c b/text-utils/more.c
index f0b0f67db928a1b646bdba7f987aa77cbd2b372f..c45b967ad6763b0d049949c78b57bb01fdd9375c 100644 (file)
--- a/text-utils/more.c
+++ b/text-utils/more.c
@@ -323,8 +323,8 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
                  "  -d        display help instead of ring bell\n"
                  "  -f        count logical, rather than screen lines\n"
                  "  -l        suppress pause after form feed\n"
-                 "  -p        suppress scroll, clean screen and display text\n"
-                 "  -c        suppress scroll, display text and clean line ends\n"
+                 "  -p        do not scroll, clean screen and display text\n"
+                 "  -c        do not scroll, display text and clean line ends\n"
                  "  -u        suppress underlining\n"
                  "  -s        squeeze multiple blank lines into one\n"
                  "  -NUM      specify the number of lines per screenful\n"