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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1994-10-21 05:25:03 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1994-10-21 05:25:03 +0000
commitb902a4439eff117f8eee8cc01a2472646d76613d (patch)
tree7d327471d12a0e45f366ed1e62ff5add6802c5ae
parentaa3d6d01e8844e20fc08f5bb9b2115c7967ba434 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b902a4439eff117f8eee8cc01a2472646d76613d.tar.xz
merge with 1.10t
-rw-r--r--old/sh-utils/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--src/basename.c6
-rw-r--r--src/dirname.c6
-rw-r--r--src/expr.c6
-rw-r--r--src/pathchk.c5
-rw-r--r--src/sleep.c4
6 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog b/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog
index 7739a4e2b..1b48189ba 100644
--- a/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog
+++ b/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Oct 21 00:57:23 1994 Jim Meyering (meyering@comco.com)
+
+ * basename.c, dirname.c, expr.c, pathchk.c, sleep.c (main): Diagnose
+ wrong number of argument -- usually too few -- instead of just
+ referring the user to the --help option. Reported by Karl Berry.
+
Mon Oct 17 23:55:41 1994 Jim Meyering (meyering@comco.com)
* doc/Makefile.in (install): Install the info files from either
diff --git a/src/basename.c b/src/basename.c
index 1c8a058e2..9270372bd 100644
--- a/src/basename.c
+++ b/src/basename.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include "long-options.h"
char *basename ();
+void error ();
void strip_trailing_slashes ();
static void remove_suffix ();
@@ -76,7 +77,10 @@ main (argc, argv)
parse_long_options (argc, argv, "basename", version_string, usage);
if (argc == 1 || argc > 3)
- usage (1);
+ {
+ error (0, 0, "too %s arguments", argc == 1 ? "few" : "many");
+ usage (1);
+ }
strip_trailing_slashes (argv[1]);
diff --git a/src/dirname.c b/src/dirname.c
index 3fb5c1a4a..7a0c834ea 100644
--- a/src/dirname.c
+++ b/src/dirname.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include "version.h"
#include "long-options.h"
+void error ();
void strip_trailing_slashes ();
/* The name this program was run with. */
@@ -66,7 +67,10 @@ main (argc, argv)
parse_long_options (argc, argv, "dirname", version_string, usage);
if (argc != 2)
- usage (1);
+ {
+ error (0, 0, "too %s arguments", argc < 2 ? "few" : "many");
+ usage (1);
+ }
path = argv[1];
strip_trailing_slashes (path);
diff --git a/src/expr.c b/src/expr.c
index e1ee8e722..a30ffb7a9 100644
--- a/src/expr.c
+++ b/src/expr.c
@@ -162,7 +162,11 @@ main (argc, argv)
parse_long_options (argc, argv, "expr", version_string, usage);
if (argc == 1)
- usage (1);
+ {
+ error (0, 0, "too few arguments");
+ usage (1);
+ }
+
args = argv + 1;
v = eval ();
diff --git a/src/pathchk.c b/src/pathchk.c
index de8bc6c3f..a34df0929 100644
--- a/src/pathchk.c
+++ b/src/pathchk.c
@@ -151,7 +151,10 @@ main (argc, argv)
usage (0);
if (optind == argc)
- usage (1);
+ {
+ error (0, 0, "too few arguments");
+ usage (1);
+ }
for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
exit_status |= validate_path (argv[optind], check_portability);
diff --git a/src/sleep.c b/src/sleep.c
index f584f5cad..a070d42ca 100644
--- a/src/sleep.c
+++ b/src/sleep.c
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ main (argc, argv)
if (argc == 1)
{
- fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s number[smhd]...\n", argv[0]);
- exit (1);
+ error (0, 0, "too few arguments");
+ usage (1);
}
for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)