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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2008-10-22 18:40:56 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-10-22 18:40:56 +0200
commit7920f2c14afd7c72763adfb63d7dae0ebf8b7028 (patch)
treeacd1d361f30724f6f4bd8e1582e87e00ed61020d /src
parent99f49949825acc53ae3f0a711ea3e8f96699442d (diff)
downloadcoreutils-7920f2c14afd7c72763adfb63d7dae0ebf8b7028.tar.xz
* src/ls.c (usage): Describe exit statuses more concisely.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/ls.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 30217683e..e38a5fee5 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -4530,10 +4530,8 @@ colors, and can be set easily by the dircolors command.\n\
\n\
Exit status:\n\
0 if OK,\n\
- 1 if minor problems (e.g., failure to access a file or directory not\n\
- specified as a command line argument,\n\
- 2 if serious trouble (e.g., memory exhausted, invalid option or failure\n\
- to access a file or directory specified as a command line argument).\n\
+ 1 if minor problems (e.g., cannot access subdirectory),\n\
+ 2 if serious trouble (e.g., cannot access command-line argument).\n\
"), stdout);
emit_bug_reporting_address ();
}