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authorAnthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-02-28 21:51:58 +0000
committerAnthony J. Bentley <bentley@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-02-28 21:51:58 +0000
commiteff3ed99ef2bccae897c58214bda6e54d4ce0d3b (patch)
tree70f6f5748253b248a299b246ff1440902144ff2a /usr.bin/tail
parentb1c3f450e8d0a18f3dac514bec9232ba1d0392b3 (diff)
Reduce usage of predefined strings in manpages.
Predefined strings are not very portable across troff implementations, and they make the source much harder to read. Usually the intended character can be written directly. No output changes, except for two instances where the incorrect escape was used in the first place. tweaks + ok schwarze@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/tail')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/tail/tail.16
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1 b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
index 470dc4bf9f6..af3579cde29 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/tail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tail.1,v 1.20 2014/06/03 19:27:31 guenther Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tail.1,v 1.21 2015/02/28 21:51:57 bentley Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: tail.1,v 1.4 1994/11/23 07:42:13 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)tail.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 3 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 28 2015 $
.Dt TAIL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The
option is ignored if there are no
.Fa file
arguments and the standard input is a pipe or a FIFO.
-.It Fl n Ar number \*(Ba Fl Ns Ar number
+.It Fl n Ar number | Fl Ns Ar number
The location is
.Ar number
lines.