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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000
commitd7b87853ad02031845dedc2e4eb43470f70629b2 (patch)
tree6711d6705a3d61a8fc1398a0e93943d2c24e793f /bin/cat/cat.1
parent0e57f2a299667350f0094976659b7e7f6dee3478 (diff)
First complete sweep of man pages, bin/. Command/function names previously
(incorrectly) capatilized are fixed. Comma splices, hyphenations, SYNOPSIS cleanups, other miscellaneous typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/cat/cat.1')
-rw-r--r--bin/cat/cat.114
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bin/cat/cat.1 b/bin/cat/cat.1
index 9072cfd8259..7067af21c94 100644
--- a/bin/cat/cat.1
+++ b/bin/cat/cat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: cat.1,v 1.4 1997/11/08 10:20:31 todd Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cat.1,v 1.5 1998/09/14 22:13:34 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cat.1,v 1.12 1995/09/27 05:38:55 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -89,22 +89,24 @@ option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
Displays non-printing characters so they are visible.
Control characters print as
.Ql ^X
-for control-X; the delete
+for control-X. The DEL
character (octal 0177) prints as
-.Ql ^?
-Non-ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as
+.Ql ^? .
+Non-ASCII characters (with the high bit set) are printed as
.Ql M-
(for meta) followed by the character for the low 7 bits.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm cat
-utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
+utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
.Sh BUGS
Because of the shell language mechanism used to perform output
redirection, the command
.Dq Li cat file1 file2 > file1
-will cause the original data in file1 to be destroyed!
+will cause the original data in
+.Ar file1
+to be destroyed!
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr head 1 ,
.Xr more 1 ,