From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:16:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Improve description of --prefix.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~516
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5929282a97a3862c2f77c45b8f5fd0dda50afc4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Improve description of --prefix.
Problem reported by Edward Welbourne.
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diff --git a/src/fmt.c b/src/fmt.c
index be8390c585..392b9b5bab 100644
--- a/src/fmt.c
+++ b/src/fmt.c
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
   -c, --crown-margin        preserve indentation of first two lines\n\
-  -p, --prefix=STRING       combine only lines having STRING as prefix\n\
+  -p, --prefix=STRING       reformat only lines beginning with STRING,\n\
+                              reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines\n\
   -s, --split-only          split long lines, but do not refill\n\
 "),
 	     stdout);