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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: FYI: wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, ... |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:17:20 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) |
Jim Meyering wrote: > address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote: > >>Jim Meyering wrote: >> >>>The description of wc's --files0-from is nearly identical >>>to that of du. I've added an example: >>>... >>>address@hidden >>>+find . -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | ./wc -L --files=- | tail -n1 >>>address@hidden example >> >>Here you are using the substring abbreviation --files for >>--files0-from. Which is fine. But what if someday the --files-from >>option is added? My preference would be to make the example be unique >>in that case too and to use at least --files0=- there. > > ... > > Good point. > I've spelled it out: > > * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Spell out `--files0-from' in > the example. Suggestion from Bob Proulx. s#./wc#wc# Pádraig. p.s. I sent this privately but Jim's private mail is not working for me again.
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