From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:58:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Improve the description of --dereference (-L).
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_1~99
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=968956b998ce1e4c9a54efadf72bdff880f5e15e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Improve the description of --dereference (-L).
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diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 01334b4636..1e3e0e705b 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -3396,7 +3396,9 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.\n\
   -I, --ignore=PATTERN       do not list implied entries matching shell PATTERN\n\
   -k, --kilobytes            like --block-size=1024\n\
   -l                         use a long listing format\n\
-  -L, --dereference          list entries pointed to by symbolic links\n\
+  -L, --dereference          when showing file information for a symbolic\n\
+                               link, show information for the file the link\n\
+                               references rather than for the link itself\n\
   -m                         fill width with a comma separated list of entries\n"));
 
       printf (_("\