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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-10-08 04:35:19 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-10-08 04:35:19 +0000
commitd4cf394f3053e99922f84c3bf2c29e39aee1f444 (patch)
tree4dbf11aed88de6fc66ce9e2c1b207e426b717cc6
parent79f3064bfa248666fe3befcd06f356ad7dc8562c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d4cf394f3053e99922f84c3bf2c29e39aee1f444.tar.xz
(usage): Improve usage messages
-rw-r--r--src/chown.c2
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 71f93bde7..ac65b93cb 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
(available only on systems with lchown system call)\n\
-f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages\n\
-v, --verbose explain what is being done\n\
- -R, --recursive change files and directories recursively\n\
+ -R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively\n\
--help display this help and exit\n\
--version output version information and exit\n\
\n\
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 10f654e6d..0d9a33fb4 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2731,7 +2731,7 @@ Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.\n\
-S sort by file size\n"));
printf (_("\
- -s, --size print block size of each file\n\
+ -s, --size print size of each file, in blocks\n\
--sort=WORD ctime -c, extension -X, none -U, size -S,\n\
status -c, time -t\n\
--time=WORD atime -u, access -u, use -u\n\