From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:53:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (csplit invocation):
X-Git-Tag: v5.1.0~452
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49e0862ebbb322693712b393bc7ae13e1d4de918;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(csplit invocation):
The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
for signless offets.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 812e4a16a2..4e403ea99c 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2414,8 +2414,8 @@ file once for each repeat.
 @item /@var{regexp}/[@var{offset}]
 Create an output file containing the current line up to (but not
 including) the next line of the input file that contains a match for
-@var{regexp}.  The optional @var{offset} is a @samp{+} or @samp{-}
-followed by a positive integer.  If it is given, the input up to the
+@var{regexp}.  The optional @var{offset} is an integer.
+If it is given, the input up to (but not including) the
 matching line plus or minus @var{offset} is put into the output file,
 and the line after that begins the next section of input.