From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 20:19:44 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: getopt.3: Minor tweaks to James' patch
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getopt.3: Minor tweaks to James' patch

The rest of the page writes the characters without naming them.
Follow that convention.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3
index e88321ed03..0d6ad1c541 100644
--- a/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man3/getopt.3
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ A legitimate option character is any visible one byte
 .BR ascii (7)
 character (for which
 .BR isgraph (3)
-would return nonzero) that is not dash (\(aq\-\(aq) or colon (\(aq:\(aq).
+would return nonzero) that is not \(aq\-\(aq or \(aq:\(aq.
 If such a
 character is followed by a colon, the option requires an argument, so
 .BR getopt ()