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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-25 07:36:37 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-25 07:36:37 +0000
commita89498710ce9341e4900b4bebc45717a611c25b6 (patch)
tree791deb3b679bffdd21f0ff2422c71d1f3189db04 /usr.bin/printf/printf.1
parent3ad8b33cbfd68868ab48b52d61b2f9ca2bb8e5e2 (diff)
don't use plural "arguments" in SYNOPSIS, since "..." makes it
redundant; tweak the rest of the page to stop using both forms, and tweak usage(), which was wrong anyway, to match this;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/printf/printf.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/printf/printf.114
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
index b345c1dcd4b..6122b6d17ed 100644
--- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
+++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.26 2014/05/13 20:37:48 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.27 2014/05/25 07:36:36 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)printf.1 5.11 (Berkeley) 7/24/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 13 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 25 2014 $
.Dt PRINTF 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm printf
.Ar format
-.Op Ar arguments ...
+.Op Ar argument ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm printf
formats and prints its arguments, after the first, under control
@@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ are converted and copied to the standard output, and format specifications,
each of which causes printing of the next successive
.Ar argument .
.Pp
-The
-.Ar arguments
-after the first are treated as strings if the corresponding format is
+The arguments after the first are treated as strings
+if the corresponding format is
.Cm b ,
.Cm c
or
@@ -72,8 +71,7 @@ If the leading character is a single or double quote, the value is the
code of the next character.
.El
.Pp
-The format string is reused as often as necessary to satisfy the
-.Ar arguments .
+The format string is reused as often as necessary to satisfy the arguments.
Any extra format specifications are evaluated with zero or the null
string.
.Pp