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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-11-04 16:09:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-11-05 06:59:03 -0700 |
| commit | 0c5ae3a8ace333fcafff237fa4707b6469df10e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 53109426dd156b0345e5324723644fb9c2f6ebfe /src/mktemp.c | |
| parent | e89a5e9b132a1f83e63a02ae8c6459fd6c41372b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0c5ae3a8ace333fcafff237fa4707b6469df10e5.tar.xz | |
mktemp: rearrange --help output
* src/mktemp.c (usage): Align indentation and sort by long
options. Describe valid templates.
Suggested by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548316.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/mktemp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mktemp.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/src/mktemp.c b/src/mktemp.c index 2b6e4b45f..e967d8eca 100644 --- a/src/mktemp.c +++ b/src/mktemp.c @@ -65,33 +65,28 @@ usage (int status) printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]\n"), program_name); fputs (_("\ Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name.\n\ -If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.\n\ +TEMPLATE must end in at least 3 consecutive `X's.\n\ +If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX, and --tmpdir is implied.\n\ "), stdout); fputs ("\n", stdout); fputs (_("\ - -d, --directory create a directory, not a file\n\ + -d, --directory create a directory, not a file\n\ + -u, --dry-run do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)\n\ + -q, --quiet suppress diagnostics about file/dir-creation failure\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ - -q, --quiet suppress diagnostics about file/dir-creation failure\n\ -"), stdout); - fputs (_("\ - -u, --dry-run do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)\n\ -"), stdout); - fputs (_("\ - --tmpdir[=DIR] interpret TEMPLATE relative to DIR. If DIR is\n\ - not specified, use $TMPDIR if set, else /tmp.\n\ - With this option, TEMPLATE must not be an absolute name.\n\ - Unlike with -t, TEMPLATE may contain slashes, but even\n\ - here, mktemp still creates only the final component.\n\ + --tmpdir[=DIR] interpret TEMPLATE relative to DIR. If DIR is not\n\ + specified, use $TMPDIR if set, else /tmp. With\n\ + this option, TEMPLATE must not be an absolute name.\n\ + Unlike with -t, TEMPLATE may contain slashes, but\n\ + mktemp creates only the final component.\n\ "), stdout); fputs ("\n", stdout); fputs (_("\ - -p DIR use DIR as a prefix; implies -t [deprecated]\n\ -"), stdout); - fputs (_("\ - -t interpret TEMPLATE as a single file name component,\n\ - relative to a directory: $TMPDIR, if set; else the\n\ - directory specified via -p; else /tmp [deprecated]\n\ + -p DIR use DIR as a prefix; implies -t [deprecated]\n\ + -t interpret TEMPLATE as a single file name component,\n\ + relative to a directory: $TMPDIR, if set; else the\n\ + directory specified via -p; else /tmp [deprecated]\n\ "), stdout); fputs ("\n", stdout); fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout); @@ -178,7 +173,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR; - case 'V': + case 'V': /* Undocumented alias. FIXME: remove in 2011. */ case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS); default: usage (EXIT_FAILURE); |