From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 21:34:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: maint: misc tweaks to recent changes
X-Git-Tag: v8.26~46
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=23066be1b655fd81542761161c4f7ef37dc0813b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: misc tweaks to recent changes

* doc/coreutils.texi(cut invocation): Give a more accurate description
of cut field handling limitations.
* tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh: Fix the test header to be more general.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Spellings.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 597cf76f0c..81101485c8 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -5864,7 +5864,7 @@ line that contains no delimiter character, unless the
 @option{--only-delimited} (@option{-s}) option is specified.
 
 Note @command{awk} supports more sophisticated field processing,
-like reordering fields, and handling non fixed width fields.
+like reordering fields, and handling fields aligned with blank characters.
 By default @command{awk} uses (and discards) runs of blank characters
 to separate fields, and ignores leading and trailing blanks.
 @example
diff --git a/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh b/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
index 1245ddb9e9..45a276d136 100755
--- a/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# ensure that stat properly handles a format string ending with %
+# stat --format tests
 
 # Copyright (C) 2003-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ for i in $(seq 50); do
   test "$out" = "$fmt" || fail=1
 done
 
+
 # ensure QUOTING_STYLE is honored by %N
 touch "'" || framework_failure_
 # Default since v8.25
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/retry.sh b/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
index a4cff11e67..b764aa7f1b 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
+++ b/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ grep -F 'cannot open' out        || { fail=1; cat out; }
 grep -F 'no files remaining' out || { fail=1; cat out; }
 
 # === Test:
-# Ensure that tail -F retries when the file is initally untailable.
+# Ensure that tail -F retries when the file is initially untailable.
 mkdir untailable
 timeout 10 \
   tail $mode $fastpoll -F untailable >out 2>&1 & pid=$!