Re: typo in man ls?

[Jim Meyering]

Peng Yu wrote:
> "Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort."
>
> I suspect that there is a typo in the above sentence from man ls.
> Should it be "Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor
> --sort exists."?

Thanks.  There was room for improvement there:

>From 10ec91d84a53b3acae630864c2e82f2a74fa9c38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:54:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve ls --help grammar

* src/ls.c (usage): Improve grammar.
Reported by Peng Yu.
---
 THANKS.in |    1 +
 src/ls.c  |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index a7ec933..2979d52 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ Paul Slootman                       address@hidden
 Paul Townsend                       address@hidden
 Paul Worrall                        address@hidden
 Pawel Prokop                        address@hidden
+Peng Yu                             address@hidden
 Per Cederqvist                      address@hidden
 Per Kristian Hove                   address@hidden
 Per Starbäck                        address@hidden
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index a167254..c604e14 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -4588,7 +4588,7 @@ usage (int status)
       printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n"), program_name);
       fputs (_("\
 List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).\n\
-Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort.\n\
+Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.\n\
 \n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
--
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