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Patch to clarify readlink(1) man page


From: Bruce Jerrick
Subject: Patch to clarify readlink(1) man page
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 07:38:15 -0700
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The --canonicalize options in the readlink(1) man page would be much
easier to keep straight if they
were in least-to-most restrictive order, rather than alphabetic order.

Here is a diff that changes it (to be applied to the uncompressed
/usr/share/man/man1/readlink.1.gz);
it was generated from Fedora 30 Updates coreutils-common-8.31-2.fc30 .
The result is this order:

    -m, --canonicalize-missing
    -f, --canonicalize
    -e, --canonicalize-existing

--- readlink.1.orig     2019-05-03 07:41:24.000000000 -0700
+++ readlink.1  2019-05-06 07:09:17.156226980 -0700
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
 .PP
 Print value of a symbolic link or canonical file name
 .TP
+\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\-missing\fR
+canonicalize by following every symlink in
+every component of the given name recursively,
+without requirements on components existence
+.TP
 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\fR
 canonicalize by following every symlink in
 every component of the given name recursively;
@@ -20,11 +25,6 @@
 every component of the given name recursively,
 all components must exist
 .TP
-\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-canonicalize\-missing\fR
-canonicalize by following every symlink in
-every component of the given name recursively,
-without requirements on components existence
-.TP
 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no\-newline\fR
 do not output the trailing delimiter
 .HP





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