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one letter options no longer leftmost in man pages
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Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
one letter options no longer leftmost in man pages |
Date: |
Sat, 17 May 2003 06:02:39 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) |
Is this your manual page?
This manual page documents the GNU version of xargs. xargs reads argu-
Sounds like it.
If so, can you kindly refrain from hiding the one letter options
further into the line:
--null, -0
Input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by
--eof[=eof-str], -e[eof-str]
Set the end of file string to eof-str. If the end of file
--replace[=replace-str], -i[replace-str]
Replace occurences of replace-str in the initial arguments with
--max-lines[=max-lines], -l[max-lines]
Use at most max-lines nonblank input lines per command line;
You see, it's driving my eye nuts trying to dig them out. Please put
them at front like everybody did until your new practice.
I.e. the -O -e -i -l should be the first thing the eye meets on a line.
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