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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-11-05 16:25:58 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-11-05 16:25:58 +0000 |
commit | ad299aa8af3a938c94ae08e0173415494db58bed (patch) | |
tree | c83f236044ba071234ba60c0e30b1d4ea5fb0682 /usr.bin | |
parent | 3bca66b0222b620f5ff203fdfe606d38e078d34e (diff) |
Fix the example "ls . |more"; from Frederic Nowak <fnwk at mailbox dot org>.
While here, make it clear that `-' and `|' are only special in local,
not in remote filenames.
Probably, `|' support should be removed from ftp(1), but let's fix one
thing at a time.
OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ftp/ftp.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ftp/ftp.1 b/usr.bin/ftp/ftp.1 index 3962551cd3c..17af9782bc3 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ftp/ftp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ftp/ftp.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ftp.1,v 1.100 2015/09/25 20:32:39 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ftp.1,v 1.101 2015/11/05 16:25:57 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ftp.1,v 1.22 1997/08/18 10:20:22 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)ftp.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 10/9/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 25 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2015 $ .Dt FTP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -1461,13 +1461,13 @@ Files specified as arguments to commands are processed according to the following rules. .Bl -enum .It -If the file name +If .Sq - -is specified, the standard input (for reading) +is specified as a local file name, the standard input (for reading) or standard output (for writing) is used. .It -If the first character of the file name is +If the first character of a local file name is .Sq \&| , the remainder of the argument is interpreted as a shell command. @@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ must be quoted; e.g., .Qq ls -lt . A particularly useful example of this mechanism is: -.Qq dir |more . +.Qq ls \&. |more . .It Failing the above checks, if .Dq globbing |