maint: misc tweaks to recent changes

* doc/coreutils.texi(cut invocation): Give a more accurate description
of cut field handling limitations.
* tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh: Fix the test header to be more general.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Spellings.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh b/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
index 1245ddb9e..45a276d13 100755
--- a/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
+++ b/tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# ensure that stat properly handles a format string ending with %
+# stat --format tests
 
 # Copyright (C) 2003-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ for i in $(seq 50); do
   test "$out" = "$fmt" || fail=1
 done
 
+
 # ensure QUOTING_STYLE is honored by %N
 touch "'" || framework_failure_
 # Default since v8.25
diff --git a/tests/tail-2/retry.sh b/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
index a4cff11e6..b764aa7f1 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
+++ b/tests/tail-2/retry.sh
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ grep -F 'cannot open' out        || { fail=1; cat out; }
 grep -F 'no files remaining' out || { fail=1; cat out; }
 
 # === Test:
-# Ensure that tail -F retries when the file is initally untailable.
+# Ensure that tail -F retries when the file is initially untailable.
 mkdir untailable
 timeout 10 \
   tail $mode $fastpoll -F untailable >out 2>&1 & pid=$!