From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 18 5:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1372737B410 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 05:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4ICe5W56352; Sat, 18 May 2002 05:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 05:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205181240.g4ICe5W56352@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/38161: missing word in src/usr.bin/uniq/uniq.1 Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/38161; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tom Rhodes Cc: Ceri Davies , bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/38161: missing word in src/usr.bin/uniq/uniq.1 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:33:09 +0300 On 2002-05-17 11:40, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2002 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) > Ceri Davies wrote: > > I think the patch is good. > > This is the comment I was waiting for. Thanks Ceri ;) For what it's worth, I don't like having two identical words, one right after the other. Perhaps rewording might help? By reading the text of uniq.1 I can see that the `fields' option of -f is actually the number of fields that is ignored when -f is passed. I would really prefer this written in such a way that duplication of a word is not needed. Something like: %%% --- uniq.1.orig Sat May 18 15:30:58 2002 +++ uniq.1 Sat May 18 15:31:14 2002 @@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ occurred in the input, followed by a single space. .It Fl d Only output lines that are repeated in the input. -.It Fl f Ar fields +.It Fl f Ar num Ignore the first -.Ar fields +.Ar num in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from adjacent fields by blanks. %%% If you like this better, then you're welcome to use it, instead of the word duplication. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message