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dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:56 +0200

FYI, without the change below, the dd man page entries for
"directory" and all following flags were mangled:

       direct use direct I/O for data

              directory fail unless a directory dsync     use synchronized I/O
              for data sync      likewise, but also for metadata nonblock  use
              non-blocking I/O noatime   do  not  update  access  time  noctty
              do  not  assign  controlling terminal from file nofollow  do not
              follow symlinks

       Sending a USR1 signal to a running `dd'  process  makes  it  print  I/O
       statistics to standard error and then resume copying.

Now, its rendered like this:

       direct use direct I/O for data

       directory
              fail unless a directory

       dsync  use synchronized I/O for data

       sync   likewise, but also for metadata

       nonblock
              use non-blocking I/O

       noatime
              do not update access time

       noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file

       nofollow
              do not follow symlinks

       Sending a USR1 signal to a running `dd'  process  makes  it  print  I/O
       statistics to standard error and then resume copying.

>From 4fff95cfe1b1c11501759d8cb5386489628dfabb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:50:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page 
properly

* src/dd.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate
"directory" from its description, so help2man formats
the derived man page properly.
---
 src/dd.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index ead9574..5e3547d 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ Each FLAG symbol may be:\n\
       if (O_DIRECT)
        fputs (_("  direct    use direct I/O for data\n"), stdout);
       if (O_DIRECTORY)
-       fputs (_("  directory fail unless a directory\n"), stdout);
+       fputs (_("  directory  fail unless a directory\n"), stdout);
       if (O_DSYNC)
        fputs (_("  dsync     use synchronized I/O for data\n"), stdout);
       if (O_SYNC)
--
1.6.0.rc0.16.g6458d




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