From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:31:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: doc: fix punctuation in stat --help
X-Git-Tag: v9.0~204
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ebaffa5094f3eb55ad0d1c1014e4395896d5684e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: fix punctuation in stat --help


* src/stat.c (usage): Replace a mistaken semicolon with a colon,
and replace mistaken backticks with single quotes.  Also reorder
some words, for clarity.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/43707
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diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
index 4e6c2aa862..1c09073a2e 100644
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
@@ -1717,10 +1717,10 @@ Display file or file system status.\n\
       fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
 
       fputs (_("\n\
-The --cached MODE argument can be; always, never, or default.\n\
-`always` will use cached attributes if available, while\n\
-`never` will try to synchronize with the latest attributes, and\n\
-`default` will leave it up to the underlying file system.\n\
+The MODE argument of --cached can be: always, never, or default.\n\
+'always' will use cached attributes if available, while\n\
+'never' will try to synchronize with the latest attributes, and\n\
+'default' will leave it up to the underlying file system.\n\
 "), stdout);
 
       fputs (_("\n\