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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-06-02 05:00:24 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-06-02 05:00:24 +0000
commitfa2ce4d9320942ad32f45a5be80cb9785ddb2687 (patch)
tree92e7869df42dc8f8a456473c16b074df5d893822 /doc/coreutils.texi
parent034501ddef1fc5a46058fdd0d9f86a17443b4b1f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-fa2ce4d9320942ad32f45a5be80cb9785ddb2687.tar.xz
(readlink invocation): "path component" ->
"component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 3cbd7b121..dd019422b 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7955,7 +7955,7 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}.
@opindex -f
@opindex --canonicalize
Activate canonicalize mode.
-If any path component except the last one is missing or unavailable,
+If any component of the file name except the last one is missing or unavailable,
@command{readlink} produces no output and exits with a nonzero exit code.
@item -e
@@ -7963,7 +7963,7 @@ If any path component except the last one is missing or unavailable,
@opindex -e
@opindex --canonicalize-existing
Activate canonicalize mode.
-If any path component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} produces
+If any component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} produces
no output and exits with a nonzero exit code.
@item -m
@@ -7971,7 +7971,7 @@ no output and exits with a nonzero exit code.
@opindex -m
@opindex --canonicalize-missing
Activate canonicalize mode.
-If any path component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} treats it
+If any component is missing or unavailable, @command{readlink} treats it
as a directory.
@item -n