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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-02-01 04:49:51 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-02-01 04:49:51 +0000
commitcd0b33c83971256a30406186fa8a55ea8d5b1b9d (patch)
tree5f1c5bfd32f310426f44836826ddad602997aa7b /src
parenta7dbd3f5e4fdccfa1247ddf36dd5545c67023afd (diff)
downloadcoreutils-cd0b33c83971256a30406186fa8a55ea8d5b1b9d.tar.xz
(usage): Make parenthetical note on --no-dereference a little more general.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index 61f4dabd6..7e2d7d4ae 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.\n\
\n\
-c, --changes be verbose whenever change occurs\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\
-R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively\n\
-v, --verbose explain what is being done\n\