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Re: Final point in new option of join


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: Final point in new option of join
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:56:22 +0000
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On 10/02/10 13:50, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Pádraig Brady on 2/10/2010 6:43 AM:
On 10/02/10 10:37, Stéphane Raimbault wrote:
I don't think the final point of this new option is useful.

#: src/join.c:193
...
"  --header          treat first line in each file as field header line,
\n"
"                      print them without trying to pair them.\n"

Any suggestions? How about:

treat first line in each file as a field header line,
   to be printed unconditionally.

I don't think she was complaining about the wording, but about the final
period.  Our coding style recommends that we omit the '.' at the end of
help phrases.

:) While I'm at it I might change it slightly to the following
so that it might be a bit more obvious that the fields are still
parsed so that -o is honored for the headers.

treat the first line in each file as field headers,
  print them without trying to pair them

cheers,
Pádraig.




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