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bug#22498: cmp man page too sophisticated
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#22498: cmp man page too sophisticated |
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Tue, 2 Feb 2016 00:02:15 +0100 |
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tag 22498 notabug
close 22498
stop
On 01/31/2016 03:45 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Man cmp:
> -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP
> skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs
>
> -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2
> skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2
> I would say:
>
> -i SKIP, --ignore-initial=SKIP
> skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs
>
> -i SKIP1:SKIP2, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2
> skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2
>
> I mean if the user was smart enough to figure that out, he probably
> wouldn't be reading the man page anyway.
'cmp' is not part of the GNU coreutils:
$ cmp --help | grep bugs
Report bugs to: address@hidden
Therefore, I'm marking this as not a bug here.
You may want to discuss this on the diffutils mailing list,
but I think you'll be directed to this sentence in front
of the options list of the --help output:
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
Have a nice day,
Berny
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