From b44d4b6b0e2e5a422bd39be19f397142c3632b5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:19:08 +0100 Subject: doc: improve ls --help's description of --escape (-b) * src/ls.c (usage): Be more precise about how --escape (-b) works: say "C-style escapes", not "octal escapes". Reported by Jacky Fong. --- THANKS | 1 + src/ls.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index a53864426..65a3ab93b 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ Ilya N. Golubev gin@mo.msk.ru Ingo Saitz ingo@debian.org Ivan Labath labath3@st.fmph.uniba.sk Ivo Timmermans ivo@debian.org +Jacky Fong jacky.fong@utoronto.ca James james@albion.glarp.com James Antill jmanti%essex.ac.uk@seralph21.essex.ac.uk James Lemley James.Lemley@acxiom.com diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c index 3025a76ef..6bd680e15 100644 --- a/src/ls.c +++ b/src/ls.c @@ -4594,7 +4594,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ -a, --all do not ignore entries starting with .\n\ -A, --almost-all do not list implied . and ..\n\ --author with -l, print the author of each file\n\ - -b, --escape print octal escapes for nongraphic characters\n\ + -b, --escape print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks. See SIZE format below\n\ -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf