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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2011-09-13 16:07:11 -0600
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2011-09-14 07:46:09 -0600
commitb98e41cc74016d5f6b2f70847c126e737193a36b (patch)
tree221ca8053a2eb417987c122189eea7b4edd893c7 /src
parent3f456c54bbd3b32e2324363ec9356137a27f7af4 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b98e41cc74016d5f6b2f70847c126e737193a36b.tar.xz
doc: improve description of join's -a option
* src/join.c (usage): Mention that -a adds to the overall output, rather than replacing the default output. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Tomas Volka.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c
index 694fb5573..809eead0f 100644
--- a/src/join.c
+++ b/src/join.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ For each pair of input lines with identical join fields, write a line to\n\
standard output. The default join field is the first, delimited\n\
by whitespace. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input.\n\
\n\
- -a FILENUM print unpairable lines coming from file FILENUM, where\n\
+ -a FILENUM also print unpairable lines from file FILENUM, where\n\
FILENUM is 1 or 2, corresponding to FILE1 or FILE2\n\
-e EMPTY replace missing input fields with EMPTY\n\
"), stdout);