(usage): Improve usage messages

diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 71f93bde74e7753cf4934f9104e0b45eba4efc2c..ac65b93cb58beba9c9d5889f6c4cc33efe88cc74 100644 (file)
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
                          (available only on systems with lchown system call)\n\
   -f, --silent, --quiet  suppress most error messages\n\
   -v, --verbose          explain what is being done\n\
-  -R, --recursive        change files and directories recursively\n\
+  -R, --recursive        operate on files and directories recursively\n\
       --help             display this help and exit\n\
       --version          output version information and exit\n\
 \n\

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 10f654e6dd7cfe54babfde4baca001695ea9243d..0d9a33fb4574c78d3a71bc4fe26caaff9c156e73 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2731,7 +2731,7 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.\n\
   -S                         sort by file size\n"));
 
       printf (_("\
-  -s, --size                 print block size of each file\n\
+  -s, --size                 print size of each file, in blocks\n\
       --sort=WORD            ctime -c, extension -X, none -U, size -S,\n\
                                status -c, time -t\n\
       --time=WORD            atime -u, access -u, use -u\n\