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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-04 11:53:56 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-04 11:53:56 +0000 |
commit | f5558a2c81394fbddd25d59efa1c36d1e4c4e0e0 (patch) | |
tree | c23144785810bbeda4c01b8a385873bfa83c8032 /usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 | |
parent | 8e68b36a929e0ad1721fd7f9eee6d57ade5db145 (diff) |
correct use of .Nm; some other formatting nits
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 index 0f8317ad6f4..556eed95d11 100644 --- a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 +++ b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.3 1998/09/26 19:54:50 aaron Exp $ -*- nroff -*- +.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.4 1999/07/04 11:53:54 aaron Exp $ -*- nroff -*- .Dd June 21, 1993 .Dt GETOPT 1 .Os @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm set \-\- \`getopt optstring $*\` .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm getopt +.Nm is used to break up options in command lines for easy parsing by shell procedures, and to check for legal options. -.Op Optstring +.Op optstring is a string of recognized option letters (see .Xr getopt 3 ); @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ separated from it by white space. The special option .Dq \-\- is used to delimit the end of the options. -.Nm getopt +.Nm will place .Dq \-\- in the arguments at the end of the options, @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ cmd \-a \-oarg \-\- file file .Xr sh 1 , .Xr getopt 3 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS -.Nm getopt +.Nm prints an error message on the standard error output when it encounters an option letter not included in .Op optstring . @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ generally will not survive intact; this looks easy to fix but isn't. .Pp The error message for an invalid option is identified as coming from -.Nm getopt +.Nm rather than from the shell procedure containing the invocation of .Nm getopt ; |