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| author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2010-06-09 11:13:13 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2010-06-14 15:42:24 -0600 |
| commit | 879e8261bbc7cc42f620778155b1e1c9e5ae3ef2 (patch) | |
| tree | de81a53f3274177770aa0dcf8d2c5c426a3e6d7f /doc | |
| parent | ceb84598d8c3a166e6949606710771f58eb2be56 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-879e8261bbc7cc42f620778155b1e1c9e5ae3ef2.tar.xz | |
cat: improve documentation
* src/cat.c (usage): Clarify that -b overrides -n.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Likewise.
* THANKS: Update.
Suggested by Chas. Owens, in bug 6383.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 102ceaf97..f103bd869 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1494,7 +1494,8 @@ Display a @samp{$} after the end of each line. @itemx --number @opindex -n @opindex --number -Number all output lines, starting with 1. +Number all output lines, starting with 1. This option is ignored +if @option{-b} is in effect. @item -s @itemx --squeeze-blank |