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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-05-26 17:08:59 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-05-26 17:08:59 +0000 |
commit | a06c16c3687c905c143dc223104b49879597d366 (patch) | |
tree | 3433f74d7bb64d4e38939029625efc8556a68969 | |
parent | ab70ce9ecea8423d88604836b9841e371c6374b2 (diff) |
tweak the text for -a and function lists;
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sed/sed.1 | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 index 42b8495052b..fe0a0f57708 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 +++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.40 2014/05/26 15:33:17 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.41 2014/05/26 17:08:58 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl a The files listed as parameters for the -.Ql w -functions are created (or truncated) before any processing begins, +.Ic w +function or flag are created (or truncated) before any processing begins, by default. The .Fl a option causes .Nm to delay opening each file until a command containing the related -.Ql w -function is applied to a line of input. +.Ic w +function or flag is applied to a line of input. .It Fl E Interpret regular expressions using POSIX extended regular expression syntax. The default behaviour is to use POSIX basic regular expression syntax. @@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ functions all accept additional arguments. The synopses below indicate which arguments have to be separated from the function letters by whitespace characters. .Pp -Two or more functions form a -.Em function list . -This is a list of +Functions can be combined to form a +.Em function list , +a list of .Nm functions separated by newlines, as follows: .Bd -literal -offset indent |