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author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-12-01 02:09:19 +0000 |
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committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2008-12-01 02:09:19 +0000 |
commit | 00b5a2db33cddadf641ae2f01534514314d7e817 (patch) | |
tree | a8c936c2ecb95023ef0ad2f724c2d4b3334f841f /src | |
parent | e34894bf3f52f1600e5a334ddeec9c2a7e431853 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-00b5a2db33cddadf641ae2f01534514314d7e817.tar.xz |
doc: Improve description of --files0-from option
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe the most common
usage of --files0-from=- to read names from stdin.
* src/du.c: Likewise.
* src/sort.c: Likewise.
* src/wc.c: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r-- | src/du.c | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/sort.c | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/wc.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ --files0-from=F summarize disk usage of the NUL-terminated file\n\ - names specified in file F\n\ + names specified in file F;\n\ + If F is - then read names from standard input\n\ -H like --si, but also evokes a warning; will soon\n\ change to be equivalent to --dereference-args (-D)\n\ -h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)\n\ diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index df51d8b33..f43856315 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ Other options:\n\ --compress-program=PROG compress temporaries with PROG;\n\ decompress them with PROG -d\n\ --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by\n\ - NUL-terminated names in file F\n\ + NUL-terminated names in file F;\n\ + If F is - then read names from standard input\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2\n\ @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ read standard input.\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by\n\ - NUL-terminated names in file F\n\ + NUL-terminated names in file F;\n\ + If F is - then read names from standard input\n\ -L, --max-line-length print the length of the longest line\n\ -w, --words print the word counts\n\ "), stdout); |