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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 03:20:37 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 03:20:37 +0000
commit9bb6028fe02a280e61b8f862f447486ce6b5f72a (patch)
treeebd1056cace973776cd01330a93779596980ef88 /bin/ln
parenteecdb9deb4317c0e37ed8d58ba92503563912fed (diff)
start killing redundant .Nm macro arguments (mandoc ``remembers'' the first one
it's given)
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ln')
-rw-r--r--bin/ln/ln.116
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/ln.1 b/bin/ln/ln.1
index 3f1d6c491e7..adea21cf466 100644
--- a/bin/ln/ln.1
+++ b/bin/ln/ln.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ln.1,v 1.3 1998/09/14 22:13:49 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ln.1,v 1.4 1998/11/28 03:20:33 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ln.1,v 1.10 1995/07/25 19:37:04 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -44,17 +44,17 @@
.Nm ln
.Nd make links
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
.Op Fl fs
.Ar source_file
.Op target_file
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
.Op Fl fs
.Ar source_file ...
.Op target_dir
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
utility creates a new directory entry (linked file) which has the
same modes as the original file.
It is useful for maintaining multiple copies of a file in many places
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Create a symbolic link.
.El
.Pp
By default,
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
makes
.Em hard
links.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ call may be used to read the contents of a symbolic link.
Symbolic links may span file systems and may refer to directories.
.Pp
Given one or two arguments,
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
creates a link to an existing file
.Ar source_file .
If
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ to the last component of
.Ar source_file .
.Pp
Given more than two arguments,
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
makes links in
.Ar target_dir
to all the named source files.
@@ -129,6 +129,6 @@ The links made will have the same name as the files being linked to.
.Xr symlink 7
.Sh HISTORY
An
-.Nm ln
+.Nm
utility appeared in
.At v6 .