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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-11-03 19:24:25 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-11-05 00:42:23 +0000
commit6f64cb64f7e1f14bb8968a8838cc3bbe9d28d10b (patch)
tree6d6408292ad7acae07d4043b8b7c88e113a19874
parentc6656eed6ae9536812012a1b0d0b31ec960acf23 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-6f64cb64f7e1f14bb8968a8838cc3bbe9d28d10b.tar.xz
doc: improve the --help description of ls -N
* src/ls.c (usage): The existing description was inaccurate as -N does not directly impact whether control characters are displayed or not.
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index cb3811163..d42b9f4d0 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -4957,8 +4957,7 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-n, --numeric-uid-gid like -l, but list numeric user and group IDs\n\
- -N, --literal print raw entry names (don't treat e.g. control\n\
- characters specially)\n\
+ -N, --literal print entry names without quoting\n\
-o like -l, but do not list group information\n\
-p, --indicator-style=slash\n\
append / indicator to directories\n\