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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-01-08 06:33:16 -0700
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-01-08 07:57:36 -0700
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option handling: make exceptions more consistent
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): Not all utilities reject option abbreviations. * src/chroot.c (main): Report correct name on failure. * src/echo.c (usage): Clarify long option usage. * src/setuidgid.c (usage): Likewise. * src/hostid.c (usage): Condense.
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@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ abbreviations of those options. For example, @samp{rmdir
Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version}
options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For
-these programs, abbreviations of the long options are not recognized.
+these programs, abbreviations of the long options are not always recognized.
@table @samp