From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:58:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Tweak --help output to make it more consistent with that of chgrp.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~330
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82288821f03265883bdb5815711052a683b95389;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Tweak --help output to make it more consistent with that of chgrp.
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diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 3e0ea1110d..acae4206e2 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -302,8 +302,8 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
                          (available only on systems that can change the\n\
                          ownership of a symlink)\n\
   -f, --silent, --quiet  suppress most error messages\n\
-      --reference=RFILE  use the owner and group of RFILE instead of using\n\
-                         explicit OWNER.GROUP values\n\
+      --reference=RFILE  use RFILE's owner and group rather than\n\
+                         the specified OWNER.GROUP values\n\
   -R, --recursive        operate on files and directories recursively\n\
   -v, --verbose          output a diagnostic for every file processed\n\
       --help             display this help and exit\n\