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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2007-06-15 09:29:18 +0200
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-06-15 09:29:18 +0200
commit6a0dea3ca072d01342064f0421acc6b2c97c12f4 (patch)
tree4630e662713315dfc25329bf613953c6ce6868d1 /src
parent85c3924ce53c867507e55319cc44c6ffcd847428 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-6a0dea3ca072d01342064f0421acc6b2c97c12f4.tar.xz
Clarify what "cat" documentation means by "blank" lines.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): "Blank" lines actually mean empty lines. * src/cat.c (usage): Say that "nonblank" means nonempty. Clarify --squeeze-blank.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/cat.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/cat.c b/src/cat.c
index e100a1483..a9580e828 100644
--- a/src/cat.c
+++ b/src/cat.c
@@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION] [FILE]...\n\
Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.\n\
\n\
-A, --show-all equivalent to -vET\n\
- -b, --number-nonblank number nonblank output lines\n\
+ -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines\n\
-e equivalent to -vE\n\
-E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line\n\
-n, --number number all output lines\n\
- -s, --squeeze-blank never more than one single blank line\n\
+ -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-t equivalent to -vT\n\