be more specific about the field delimiter;

reported by Arto Huusko, NetBSD PR bin/40214

feedback/ok otto

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1 b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
index 5c05daddeb7..067890e09f7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: cut.1,v 1.13 2008/06/27 08:02:13 sobrado Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: cut.1,v 1.14 2008/12/19 11:23:31 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: cut.1,v 1.6 1995/10/02 20:19:26 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)cut.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 27 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 19 2008 $
 .Dt CUT 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -96,12 +96,16 @@ specifies character positions.
 .It Fl d Ar delim
 Use the first character of
 .Ar delim
-as the field delimiter character instead of the tab character.
+as the field delimiter character.
+The default is the
+.Aq TAB
+character.
 .It Fl f Ar list
 The
 .Ar list
-specifies fields, delimited in the input by a single tab character.
-Output fields are separated by a single tab character.
+specifies fields, separated by the field delimiter character.
+The selected fields are output,
+separated by the field delimiter character.
 .It Fl n
 Do not split multi-byte characters.
 .It Fl s