From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 09:23:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add missing \n\
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~68
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de9a8777165b1c5a0a6facbeb7fa617e3b4fa330;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

add missing \n\
---

diff --git a/src/rmdir.c b/src/rmdir.c
index 24c5f66e33..9e8e2363a5 100644
--- a/src/rmdir.c
+++ b/src/rmdir.c
@@ -130,9 +130,11 @@ usage (int status)
 Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.\n\
 \n\
       --ignore-fail-on-non-empty\n\
-                  ignore each failure that is solely because the\n\
-                  directory is non-empty\n\
-  -p, --parents   remove explicit parent directories if being emptied\n\
+                  ignore each failure that is solely because a directory\n\
+                  is non-empty\n\
+  -p, --parents   remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each directory\n\
+                  component of that path name.  E.g., `rmdir -p a/b/c' is\n\
+                  similar to `rmdir a/b/c a/b a'.\n\
       --verbose   output a diagnostic for every directory processed\n\
       --help      display this help and exit\n\
       --version   output version information and exit\n\