use the hyphenated form "command-line" in the case of a compound adjective;

pjanzen@

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7
index aac0b27274b..1bc58ffb987 100644
--- a/bin/ln/symlink.7
+++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: symlink.7,v 1.5 1997/01/26 23:34:54 downsj Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: symlink.7,v 1.6 1999/06/03 09:50:33 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: symlink.7,v 1.4 1996/04/25 15:44:56 mycroft Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ They are as follows:
 .It
 Symbolic links used as file name arguments for system calls.
 .It
-Symbolic links specified as command line arguments to utilities that
+Symbolic links specified as command-line arguments to utilities that
 are not traversing a file tree.
 .It
 Symbolic links encountered by utilities that are traversing a file tree
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ system call was added later when the limitations of the new
 .Xr chown 2
 became apparent.
 .Ss Commands not traversing a file tree.
-The second area is symbolic links, specified as command line file
+The second area is symbolic links, specified as command-line file
 name arguments, to commands which are not traversing a file tree.
 .Pp
-Except as noted below, commands follow symbolic links named as command
-line arguments.
+Except as noted below, commands follow symbolic links named as
+command-line arguments.
 For example, if there were a symbolic link 
 .Dq Li slink
 which pointed to a file named
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ would display the contents of the file
 .Dq Li afile .
 .Pp
 It is important to realize that this rule includes commands which may
-optionally traverse file trees, e.g. the command
+optionally traverse file trees, e.g., the command
 .Dq Li "chown file"
 is included in this rule, while the command
 .Dq Li "chown -R file"
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ and
 .Pp
 It is important to realize that the following rules apply equally to
 symbolic links encountered during the file tree traversal and symbolic
-links listed as command line arguments.
+links listed as command-line arguments.
 .Pp
 The first rule applies to symbolic links that reference files that are
 not of type directory.
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ of the type of file they reference, by specifying the
 (for
 .Dq half\-logical )
 flag.
-This flag is intended to make the command line name space look
+This flag is intended to make the command-line name space look
 like the logical name space.
 (Note, for commands that do not always do file tree traversals, the
 .Fl H