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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-10-28 18:19:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-10-28 18:19:05 +0200 |
| commit | a0db0def2d166b7a4e62a4a4980726abdc53dfd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 64b3685989e880d6f58f0c5547d083eed0994f67 /doc | |
| parent | 0766fb8b54c46d0f17d99d154c0420b73b8cea4b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a0db0def2d166b7a4e62a4a4980726abdc53dfd1.tar.xz | |
* coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which
the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length".
Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 0e0b5c2a0..7b97fc2b0 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2006-10-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which + the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length". + Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre. + 2006-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ee8179246..3cf34af9b 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2950,7 +2950,8 @@ wc [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{} given as an argument, it prints the file name following the counts. If more than one @var{file} is given, @command{wc} prints a final line containing the cumulative counts, with the file name @file{total}. The -counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes. +counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes, +maximum line length. Each count is printed right-justified in a field with at least one space between fields so that the numbers and file names normally line up nicely in columns. The width of the count fields varies depending |