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authorAssaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com>2015-05-13 02:46:29 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-05-13 02:54:19 +0100
commit79111d1553ff6603199b9e8e5f27269d55b095fb (patch)
tree539ae7e25bec66577029831fdcd8a85e379dc2a2 /src
parentb28ff6a3c6ad25d877b63013af245de5d6c70b10 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-79111d1553ff6603199b9e8e5f27269d55b095fb.tar.xz
doc: clarify the operation of wc -L
* src/wc.c (usage): State that it calculates display width. * doc/coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Detail the distinct items used to determine the display width.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c
index ae7ae952d..eb7b5b69a 100644
--- a/src/wc.c
+++ b/src/wc.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.\n\
--files0-from=F read input from the files specified by\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\
+ -L, --max-line-length print the maximum display width\n\
-w, --words print the word counts\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);