From f8b678f7c80d5d309636dbffedeb4bfb0a9cad10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:07:15 +0000 Subject: Better but-reporting instructions. wc tweak: lines->newlines. --- doc/textutils.texi | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi index 710eb32bf..1e7232aa5 100644 --- a/doc/textutils.texi +++ b/doc/textutils.texi @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ by the Foundation. @end ifinfo @titlepage -@title GNU textutils, version @value{VERSION} +@title GNU @code{textutils} @subtitle A set of text utilities @subtitle for version @value{VERSION}, @value{RELEASEDATE} @author David MacKenzie et al. @@ -146,11 +146,15 @@ benefit. @cindex POSIX.2 The GNU text utilities are mostly compatible with the POSIX.2 standard. +@c This paragraph appears in all of fileutils.texi, textutils.texi, and +@c sh-utils.texi too -- so be sure to keep them consistent. @cindex bugs, reporting Please report bugs to @samp{bug-gnu-utils@@prep.ai.mit.edu}. Remember to include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and -any other information needed to reproduce the bug. @xref{Bugs, , , gcc, -GNU CC}. +any other information needed to reproduce the bug: your input, what you +expected, what you got, and why it is wrong. Diffs are welcome, but +please include a description of the problem as well, since this is +sometimes difficult to infer. @xref{Bugs, , , gcc, GNU CC}. This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering. @@ -1426,7 +1430,7 @@ wc [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{} given as an argument, it prints the file name following the counts. If more than one @var{file} is given, @code{wc} prints a final line containing the cumulative counts, with the file name @file{total}. The -counts are printed in this order: lines, words, bytes. +counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, bytes. By default, @code{wc} prints all three counts. Options can specify that only certain counts be printed. Options do not undo others -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2