[PATCHv2] Adjust help/usage texts for tail.

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 10 16:14:54 UTC 2014


Applied, thanks!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
<cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>
> ---
>  coreutils/Config.src | 3 ++-
>  coreutils/tail.c     | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/coreutils/Config.src b/coreutils/Config.src
> index 0c44c4b..04bc250 100644
> --- a/coreutils/Config.src
> +++ b/coreutils/Config.src
> @@ -633,12 +633,13 @@ config FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL
>         default y
>         depends on TAIL
>         help
> -         The options (-q, -s, and -v) are provided by GNU tail, but
> +         The options (-q, -s, -v and -F) are provided by GNU tail, but
>           are not specific in the SUSv3 standard.
>
>             -q      Never output headers giving file names
>             -s SEC  Wait SEC seconds between reads with -f
>             -v      Always output headers giving file names
> +           -F      Same as -f, but keep retrying
>
>  config TEE
>         bool "tee"
> diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
> index eab502b..f27ffe2 100644
> --- a/coreutils/tail.c
> +++ b/coreutils/tail.c
> @@ -32,16 +32,14 @@
>  //usage:       "Print last 10 lines of each FILE (or stdin) to stdout.\n"
>  //usage:       "With more than one FILE, precede each with a filename header.\n"
>  //usage:     "\n       -f              Print data as file grows"
> -//usage:       IF_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL(
> -//usage:     "\n       -s SECONDS      Wait SECONDS between reads with -f"
> -//usage:       )
> +//usage:     "\n       -c [+]N[kbm]    Print last N bytes"
>  //usage:     "\n       -n N[kbm]       Print last N lines"
>  //usage:     "\n       -n +N[kbm]      Start on Nth line and print the rest"
>  //usage:       IF_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL(
> -//usage:     "\n       -c [+]N[kbm]    Print last N bytes"
>  //usage:     "\n       -q              Never print headers"
> +//usage:     "\n       -s SECONDS      Wait SECONDS between reads with -f"
>  //usage:     "\n       -v              Always print headers"
> +//usage:     "\n       -F              Same as -f, but keep retrying"
>  //usage:     "\n"
>  //usage:     "\nN may be suffixed by k (x1024), b (x512), or m (x1024^2)."
>  //usage:       )
> --
> 1.8.5.2
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