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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-07-22 19:58:29 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-07-22 19:58:29 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-8c55f0fbfadfe2ef58af12ed2ab131eb0f4b3737.tar.xz
(Formatting the file names): Document
that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal. Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 72d6265f1..0505adfa9 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -5490,8 +5490,10 @@ backslash sequences like those used in C.
@item -N
@itemx --literal
+@itemx --quoting-style=literal
@opindex -N
@opindex --literal
+@opindex --quoting-style
Do not quote file names.
@item -q
@@ -5518,7 +5520,8 @@ Use style @var{word} to quote output names. The @var{word} should
be one of the following:
@table @samp
@item literal
-Output names as-is.
+Output names as-is; this is the same as the @option{-N} or
+@option{--literal} option.
@item shell
Quote names for the shell if they contain shell metacharacters or would
cause ambiguous output.