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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-21 15:02:14 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-21 15:02:14 +0000
commitbddcb0eab2b264292a55c2c9bea6515df70b51d8 (patch)
treec0dba488fad4e786b548086aa5edbdd543b9a85f
parentf04e77d3648555db5977ed9809cdb9690ca96d75 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-bddcb0eab2b264292a55c2c9bea6515df70b51d8.tar.xz
Standardize on the diagnostics given when someone gives
too few operands ("missing operand after `xxx'") or too many operands ("extra operand `xxx'"). Include "quote.h" and/or "error.h" if it wasn't already being included. (add_file_name, main): Likewise.
-rw-r--r--src/join.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c
index a804e5943..3b2383ebf 100644
--- a/src/join.c
+++ b/src/join.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ add_file_name (char const *name, char const *names[2], int *nfiles)
{
if (*nfiles == 2)
{
- error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments"));
+ error (0, 0, _("extra operand %s"), quote (name));
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
names[(*nfiles)++] = name;
@@ -848,7 +848,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
if (nfiles != 2)
{
- error (0, 0, _("too few non-option arguments"));
+ if (nfiles == 0)
+ error (0, 0, _("missing operand"));
+ else
+ error (0, 0, _("missing operand after %s"), quote (argv[argc - 1]));
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}