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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-21 15:03:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-21 15:03:35 +0000 |
| commit | 1ce7b61d0ea270b0c463198afca1cd0e214192fb (patch) | |
| tree | 947f954d8a82091744d3809da651319e9d82001d /src/chown.c | |
| parent | 110be46897450cd5fa90e3a955ab9092db128cea (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1ce7b61d0ea270b0c463198afca1cd0e214192fb.tar.xz | |
(main): Standardize on the diagnostics given when someone gives
too few operands ("missing operand after `xxx'") or
too many operands ("extra operand `xxx'").
Include "quote.h" and/or "error.h" if it wasn't already being included.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/chown.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/chown.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c index 8a943604e..47a8e95f3 100644 --- a/src/chown.c +++ b/src/chown.c @@ -285,9 +285,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) chopt.affect_symlink_referent = (dereference != 0); } - if (argc - optind + (reference_file ? 1 : 0) <= 1) + if (argc - optind < (reference_file ? 1 : 2)) { - error (0, 0, _("too few arguments")); + if (argc <= optind) + error (0, 0, _("missing operand")); + else + error (0, 0, _("missing operand after %s"), quote (argv[argc - 1])); usage (EXIT_FAILURE); } |