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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2008-05-19 07:54:07 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-05-19 13:47:14 +0200
commit76367f06b385fbb41235e4c561a40afd921b85e9 (patch)
tree0066051f8f3c940dd3ed947cd383a0d317f57fe8
parentc4a9551eee18d16825a9b1102a8c891487a2f8bc (diff)
downloadcoreutils-76367f06b385fbb41235e4c561a40afd921b85e9.tar.xz
doc: clarify field delimiter description in uniq --help output
* src/uniq.c: Clarify in help output that field delimiters are blanks and not the larger set of whitespace characters.
-rw-r--r--src/uniq.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/uniq.c b/src/uniq.c
index b167bbb08..ce883d791 100644
--- a/src/uniq.c
+++ b/src/uniq.c
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
-A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters.\n\
-Fields are skipped before chars.\n\
+A field is a run of blanks (usually spaces and/or TABs), then non-blank\n\
+characters. Fields are skipped before chars.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\