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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 06:55:11 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 06:55:11 +0000
commit3e6f48209fb1159a6ceb04d1acc6f1add775fc45 (patch)
tree72ceb92bea0f90da3a9209d6929cec5ee0f1df08 /bin/pax
parenta6174cd0b609f882475db2af94f6559e5a5e6ff8 (diff)
Add some rudimentary EXAMPLES sections and standardize the way we display
existing EXAMPLES sections.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pax')
-rw-r--r--bin/pax/pax.153
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pax/pax.1 b/bin/pax/pax.1
index 473110b83d4..fb7f4932989 100644
--- a/bin/pax/pax.1
+++ b/bin/pax/pax.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.20 2000/04/15 02:15:10 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pax.1,v 1.21 2000/10/18 06:55:09 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pax.1,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:07:37 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Keith Muller.
@@ -1047,53 +1047,52 @@ options are specified along with the
option, a file is not considered selected unless it is newer
than the file to which it is compared.
.Sh EXAMPLES
-The command:
-.Dl pax -w -f /dev/rst0 .\
-copies the contents of the current directory to the device
+.Cm pax -w -f /dev/rst0 .\
+.Pp
+Copies the contents of the current directory to the device
.Pa /dev/rst0 .
.Pp
-The command:
-.Dl pax -v -f filename
-gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in
+.Cm pax -v -f filename
+.Pp
+Gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in
.Pa filename .
.Pp
-The following commands:
-.Dl mkdir newdir
-.Dl cd olddir
-.Dl pax -rw .\ newdir
-will copy the entire
+.Cm mkdir newdir
+.Cm cd olddir
+.Cm pax -rw .\ newdir
+.Pp
+This sequence of commands will copy the entire
.Pa olddir
directory hierarchy to
.Pa newdir .
.Pp
-The command:
-.Dl pax -r -s ',^//*usr//*,,' -f a.pax
-reads the archive
+.Cm pax -r -s ',^//*usr//*,,' -f a.pax
+.Pp
+Reads the archive
.Pa a.pax ,
with all files rooted in
.Pa /usr
-into the archive extracted relative to the
-current directory.
+into the archive extracted relative to the current directory.
.Pp
-The command:
-.Dl pax -rw -i .\ dest_dir
-can be used to interactively select the files to copy from the current
+.Cm pax -rw -i .\ dest_dir
+.Pp
+Can be used to interactively select the files to copy from the current
directory to
.Pa dest_dir .
.Pp
-The command:
-.Dl pax -r -pe -U root -G bin -f a.pax
-will extract all files from the archive
+.Cm pax -r -pe -U root -G bin -f a.pax
+.Pp
+Extract all files from the archive
.Pa a.pax
which are owned by
.Em root
with group
.Em bin
-and will preserve all file permissions.
+and preserve all file permissions.
+.Pp
+.Cm "pax -r -w -v -Y -Z home /backup"
.Pp
-The command:
-.Dl pax -r -w -v -Y -Z home /backup
-will update (and list) only those files in the destination directory
+Update (and list) only those files in the destination directory
.Pa /backup
which are older (less recent inode change or file modification times) than
files with the same name found in the source file tree