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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-26 17:08:59 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-26 17:08:59 +0000
commita06c16c3687c905c143dc223104b49879597d366 (patch)
tree3433f74d7bb64d4e38939029625efc8556a68969 /usr.bin/sed
parentab70ce9ecea8423d88604836b9841e371c6374b2 (diff)
tweak the text for -a and function lists;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/sed')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/sed/sed.116
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
index 42b8495052b..fe0a0f57708 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
+++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.40 2014/05/26 15:33:17 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sed.1,v 1.41 2014/05/26 17:08:58 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
The files listed as parameters for the
-.Ql w
-functions are created (or truncated) before any processing begins,
+.Ic w
+function or flag are created (or truncated) before any processing begins,
by default.
The
.Fl a
option causes
.Nm
to delay opening each file until a command containing the related
-.Ql w
-function is applied to a line of input.
+.Ic w
+function or flag is applied to a line of input.
.It Fl E
Interpret regular expressions using POSIX extended regular expression syntax.
The default behaviour is to use POSIX basic regular expression syntax.
@@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ functions all accept additional arguments.
The synopses below indicate which arguments have to be separated from
the function letters by whitespace characters.
.Pp
-Two or more functions form a
-.Em function list .
-This is a list of
+Functions can be combined to form a
+.Em function list ,
+a list of
.Nm
functions separated by newlines, as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent