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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-03-04 22:19:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-03-04 22:19:34 +0000 |
| commit | cb331a5fc3503bef1db7700c5754efd395dae2ad (patch) | |
| tree | 3c387f1fe619ec73d410cf76143e55ae3439a0dc /usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 | |
| parent | 0b22d8b04982e37c9ca06e14f6b79bff952e8f0e (diff) | |
In Unix land we prefer "whitespace" to "white space" or "white-space". At
least, this is the impression I get from looking at a lot of Perl docs.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 index 556eed95d11..374ceb174d1 100644 --- a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 +++ b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.4 1999/07/04 11:53:54 aaron Exp $ -*- nroff -*- +.\" $OpenBSD: getopt.1,v 1.5 2000/03/04 22:19:23 aaron Exp $ -*- nroff -*- .Dd June 21, 1993 .Dt GETOPT 1 .Os @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ is a string of recognized option letters (see ); if a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument which may or may not be -separated from it by white space. +separated from it by whitespace. The special option .Dq \-\- is used to delimit the end of the options. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Whatever .Xr getopt 3 has. .Pp -Arguments containing white space or embedded shell metacharacters +Arguments containing whitespace or embedded shell metacharacters 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 |