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-rw-r--r--NEWS5
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi4
-rw-r--r--src/nl.c15
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 85cc82bd7..5c4356e6b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
were renamed from 'HARDLINK' and 'hl' which were available since
coreutils-7.1 when this feature was introduced.
+** Deprecated options
+
+ nl --page-increment: deprecated in favor of --line-increment, the new option
+ maintains the previous semantics and the same short option, -i.
+
** New features
chroot now accepts the options --userspec and --groups.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index bb1d87a87..8e1b73d63 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1688,9 +1688,9 @@ Analogous to @option{--body-numbering}.
Analogous to @option{--body-numbering}.
@item -i @var{number}
-@itemx --page-increment=@var{number}
+@itemx --line-increment=@var{number}
@opindex -i
-@opindex --page-increment
+@opindex --line-increment
Increment line numbers by @var{number} (default 1).
@item -l @var{number}
diff --git a/src/nl.c b/src/nl.c
index 2deb314a4..d63773a98 100644
--- a/src/nl.c
+++ b/src/nl.c
@@ -144,13 +144,20 @@ static intmax_t line_no;
/* True if we have ever read standard input. */
static bool have_read_stdin;
+enum
+{
+ PAGE_INCREMENT_OPTION_DEPRECATED = CHAR_MAX + 1
+};
+
static struct option const longopts[] =
{
{"header-numbering", required_argument, NULL, 'h'},
{"body-numbering", required_argument, NULL, 'b'},
{"footer-numbering", required_argument, NULL, 'f'},
{"starting-line-number", required_argument, NULL, 'v'},
- {"page-increment", required_argument, NULL, 'i'},
+ {"line-increment", required_argument, NULL, 'i'},
+ /* FIXME: page-increment is deprecated, remove in dec-2011. */
+ {"page-increment", required_argument, NULL, PAGE_INCREMENT_OPTION_DEPRECATED},
{"no-renumber", no_argument, NULL, 'p'},
{"join-blank-lines", required_argument, NULL, 'l'},
{"number-separator", required_argument, NULL, 's'},
@@ -191,7 +198,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-h, --header-numbering=STYLE use STYLE for numbering header lines\n\
- -i, --page-increment=NUMBER line number increment at each line\n\
+ -i, --line-increment=NUMBER line number increment at each line\n\
-l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one\n\
-n, --number-format=FORMAT insert line numbers according to FORMAT\n\
-p, --no-renumber do not reset line numbers at logical pages\n\
@@ -504,6 +511,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
ok = false;
}
break;
+ case PAGE_INCREMENT_OPTION_DEPRECATED:
+ error (0, 0, _("WARNING: --page-increment is deprecated; "
+ "use --line-increment instead"));
+ /* fall through */
case 'i':
if (! (xstrtoimax (optarg, NULL, 10, &page_incr, "") == LONGINT_OK
&& 0 < page_incr))