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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-08-20 08:58:21 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1999-08-20 08:58:21 +0000
commit28c95e39c17c38dfa9a6b2c2d67b3c201b19d74b (patch)
tree9aa62af436460fc5c17c0068ff0fa171a17d1806 /src
parent47ac7c933ad4e12ae88da028cfe56959480c209c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-28c95e39c17c38dfa9a6b2c2d67b3c201b19d74b.tar.xz
(usage): Tweak --help output to make it more consistent with that of chown.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/chgrp.c b/src/chgrp.c
index 7c31af158..c981586f1 100644
--- a/src/chgrp.c
+++ b/src/chgrp.c
@@ -328,11 +328,15 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... GROUP FILE...\n\
Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP.\n\
\n\
-c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made\n\
+ --dereference affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather\n\
+ than the symbolic link itself\n\
-h, --no-dereference affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file\n\
- (available only on systems with lchown system call)\n\
+ (available only on systems that can change the\n\
+ ownership of a symlink)\n\
-f, --silent, --quiet suppress most error messages\n\
- --reference=RFILE use RFILE's group instead of using a GROUP value\n\
- -R, --recursive change files and directories recursively\n\
+ --reference=RFILE use RFILE's group rather than the specified\n\
+ GROUP value\n\
+ -R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively\n\
-v, --verbose output a diagnostic for every file processed\n\
--help display this help and exit\n\
--version output version information and exit\n\