From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 04:35:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Improve usage messages
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_19n~81
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d4cf394f3053e99922f84c3bf2c29e39aee1f444;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Improve usage messages
---

diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 71f93bde74..ac65b93cb5 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
                          (available only on systems with lchown system call)\n\
   -f, --silent, --quiet  suppress most error messages\n\
   -v, --verbose          explain what is being done\n\
-  -R, --recursive        change files and directories recursively\n\
+  -R, --recursive        operate on files and directories recursively\n\
       --help             display this help and exit\n\
       --version          output version information and exit\n\
 \n\
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 10f654e6dd..0d9a33fb45 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2731,7 +2731,7 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.\n\
   -S                         sort by file size\n"));
 
       printf (_("\
-  -s, --size                 print block size of each file\n\
+  -s, --size                 print size of each file, in blocks\n\
       --sort=WORD            ctime -c, extension -X, none -U, size -S,\n\
                                status -c, time -t\n\
       --time=WORD            atime -u, access -u, use -u\n\