From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:54:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note to help people understand this documentation
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_15~70
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b44b870dea47708783d4a038f80590665bd2021;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Add note to help people understand this documentation
may not refer to the (shell built-in) command they're running.
---

diff --git a/man/printf.x b/man/printf.x
index 6489ec53ec..2e0ded368b 100644
--- a/man/printf.x
+++ b/man/printf.x
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 [NAME]
 printf \- format and print data
 [DESCRIPTION]
-.\" Add any additional description here
+NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf which will supercede
+the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
+for details about the options it supports.
+