From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:43:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: flock: make examples in man page more readable
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flock: make examples in man page more readable

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/flock.1 b/sys-utils/flock.1
index 6762ecb4ce..a85862f46e 100644
--- a/sys-utils/flock.1
+++ b/sys-utils/flock.1
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ Display version information and exit.
 .BR \-h , " \-\-help"
 Display help text and exit.
 .SH EXAMPLES
+Note that "shell> " in examples is a command line prompt.
 .TP
 shell1> flock /tmp \-c cat
 .TQ
@@ -168,9 +169,9 @@ itself as the lock file) before re-execing itself with the right arguments.  It
 also sets the FLOCKER env var to the right value so it doesn't run again.
 .TP
 .TQ
-exec 4<>/var/lock/mylockfile
+shell> exec 4<>/var/lock/mylockfile
 .TQ
-flock -n 4
+shell> flock -n 4
 This form is convenient for locking a file without spawning a subprocess.
 The shell opens the lock file for reading and writing as file descriptor 4,
 then flock is used to lock the descriptor.