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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-09-14 22:14:01 +0000 |
commit | d7b87853ad02031845dedc2e4eb43470f70629b2 (patch) | |
tree | 6711d6705a3d61a8fc1398a0e93943d2c24e793f /bin/cat/cat.1 | |
parent | 0e57f2a299667350f0094976659b7e7f6dee3478 (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.1 | 14 |
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 , |