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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-02-28 08:30:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-02-28 08:30:19 +0000 |
| commit | db2557052c75efa8991e464d5a5147bf1d29a4d9 (patch) | |
| tree | ff339e565e2717422b6c02b418947fafa704d0d9 /doc | |
| parent | 97943b2180ce992c7e98398c0c2ce58ec74fcc3a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-db2557052c75efa8991e464d5a5147bf1d29a4d9.tar.xz | |
(pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index d7d096292..eb393b0b3 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1653,8 +1653,13 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. @item +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] @itemx --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] -@opindex +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] -@opindex --pages +@c The two following @opindex lines evoke warnings because they contain `:' +@c The `info' spec does not permit that. If we use those lines, we end +@c up with truncated index entries that don't work. +@c @opindex +@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] +@c @opindex --pages=@var{first_page}[:@var{last_page}] +@opindex +@var{page_range} +@opindex --pages=@var{page_range} Begin printing with page @var{first_page} and stop with @var{last_page}. Missing @samp{:@var{last_page}} implies end of file. While estimating the number of skipped pages each form feed in the input file results |