Date: 24 Jan 2002 10:17:36 -0800 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/34233: head(1) program's "usage" is wrong re -n and -c. Message-ID: <ofr8of8vgf.8of@localhost.localdomain>
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>Number: 34233
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: head(1) program's "usage" is wrong re -n and -c.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 24 10:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gary W. Swearingen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:
The head(1) program usage string is
"usage: head [-n lines] [-c bytes] [file ...]\n"
but should be
"usage: head [-n lines | -c bytes] [file ...]\n".
================
>How-To-Repeat:
$ head -n 3 -c 3
head: can't combine line and byte counts
$ head -h
head: illegal option -- h
usage: head [-n lines] [-c bytes] [file ...]
================
>Fix:
(Untested.)
patch -d "/usr/src/usr.bin/head" < this-PR
--- /tmp/head..orig.c Thu Jan 24 09:40:50 2002
+++ /tmp/head.c Thu Jan 24 09:41:06 2002
@@ -187,6 +187,6 @@
void
usage()
{
- (void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: head [-n lines] [-c bytes] [file ...]\n");
+ (void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: head [-n lines | -c bytes] [file ...]\n");
exit(1);
}
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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