From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:01:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Explain about default wrt --hide-control-chars and
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22o~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e246ae876550f07bde562fb668b0773ef8220745;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Explain about default wrt --hide-control-chars and
--show-control-chars.  Reported by Germano Leichsenring.
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diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 6b98db6a11..1e7c3bfb91 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2906,6 +2906,9 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.\n\
   -o                         use long listing format without group info\n\
   -p, --file-type            append indicator (one of /=@|) to entries\n\
   -q, --hide-control-chars   print ? instead of non graphic characters\n\
+                             (This is the default unless the output is a\n\
+                             terminal and the program is `ls';  otherwise,\n\
+                             the default is --show-control-chars)\n\
       --show-control-chars   show non graphic characters as-is (default)\n\
   -Q, --quote-name           enclose entry names in double quotes\n\
       --quoting-style=WORD   use quoting style WORD for entry names:\n\