Date: 8 Mar 1999 18:28:35 -0000 From: Tom Hukins <tom@eborcom.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/10491: Double negative in uniq.1 Message-ID: <19990308182835.1970.qmail@eborcom.com>
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>Number: 10491 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Double negative in uniq.1 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 8 15:10:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tom Hukins >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386 >Organization: eBORcOM >Environment: >Description: The manual page for uniq(1) contains a double negative. The patch below fixes this, and tidies up the language a little (in my opinion). >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- uniq.1.orig Sun Mar 8 14:07:56 1998 +++ uniq.1 Mon Mar 8 18:24:25 1999 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 +#.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space. .It Fl d -Don't output lines that are not repeated in the input. +Only output lines that are repeated in the input. .It Fl f Ar fields Ignore the first .Ar fields @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e. the first character is character one. .It Fl u -Don't output lines that are repeated in the input. +Only output lines that are not repeated in the input. .It Fl i Case insensitive comparison of lines. .\".It Fl Ns Ar n @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ .El .Pp If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the first -such argument is used as the name of an input file, the second is used +argument is used as the name of an input file, the second is used as the name of an output file. .Pp The >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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