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| author | Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> | 2007-08-20 22:04:45 -0600 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-08-21 09:01:07 +0200 |
| commit | 741f851bf61c884ea41eaee2c1a90d4cab99776f (patch) | |
| tree | f1ba4a33d744c765d7d824ac8b4cb06bea62e0d6 /src/touch.c | |
| parent | 6dfe8fc30d29658ec002c04d390b19435cdecba1 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-741f851bf61c884ea41eaee2c1a90d4cab99776f.tar.xz | |
Clarify touch documentation of file arguments.
* src/touch.c (usage): Improve wording of documentation regarding
file argument handling and special handling of - argument.
* doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation): Likewise.
Documentation problem reported by Vincent Lefevre.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/touch.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/touch.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/touch.c b/src/touch.c index 963e7ffb1..2540558e5 100644 --- a/src/touch.c +++ b/src/touch.c @@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ usage (int status) fputs (_("\ Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\ \n\ +A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty.\n\ +\n\ +A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to\n\ +change the times of the file associated with standard output.\n\ +\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ @@ -256,8 +261,6 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ fputs (_("\ \n\ Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.\n\ -\n\ -If a FILE is -, touch standard output.\n\ "), stdout); emit_bug_reporting_address (); } |