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| -rw-r--r-- | src/join.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c index a804e5943..3b2383ebf 100644 --- a/src/join.c +++ b/src/join.c @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ add_file_name (char const *name, char const *names[2], int *nfiles) { if (*nfiles == 2) { - error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments")); + error (0, 0, _("extra operand %s"), quote (name)); usage (EXIT_FAILURE); } names[(*nfiles)++] = name; @@ -848,7 +848,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (nfiles != 2) { - error (0, 0, _("too few non-option arguments")); + if (nfiles == 0) + error (0, 0, _("missing operand")); + else + error (0, 0, _("missing operand after %s"), quote (argv[argc - 1])); usage (EXIT_FAILURE); } |