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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-11-20 21:18:53 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-11-20 23:30:25 +0100
commit054567f5a74f61a4c2f7dca84850e1b6b3b19f52 (patch)
tree939d28f2ad9d99030c7fa0b3e1308bdc2c28419e
parent71b7ddcdd5c473f9eaf6035b96acc68c14cb379e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-054567f5a74f61a4c2f7dca84850e1b6b3b19f52.tar.xz
doc: clarify ln's --help output
* src/ln.c (usage): Use TARGET, not "source" in description. Reported by Michael J Daniel in http://bugs.gnu.org/9896.
-rw-r--r--THANKS.in1
-rw-r--r--src/ln.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index ccdbc84b6..5ecc29e63 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ Michael Gaughen mgaughen@polyserve.com
Michael Hasselberg mikelh@zonta.ping.de
Michael Hohn hohn@math.utah.edu
Michael J. Croghan mcroghan@usatoday.com
+Michael J. Daniel michael.j.daniel@comcast.net
Michael McFarland sidlon@yahoo.com
Michael McLagan mmclagan@invlogic.com
Michael Piefel piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de
diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 88737eddc..90b6e598b 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values:\n\
"), stdout);
printf (_("\
Using -s ignores -L and -P. Otherwise, the last option specified controls\n\
-behavior when the source is a symbolic link, defaulting to %s.\n\
+behavior when a TARGET is a symbolic link, defaulting to %s.\n\
"), LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS ? "-L" : "-P");
emit_ancillary_info ();
}