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According to Rudolf Kastl on 4/5/2007 6:33 AM:
> Hello to you!
>
> actually the cut manpage has a bug in it:
Which is generated from 'cut --help', but that has the same problem.
>
> SYNOPSIS
> cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>
> implies that it does need neither an option set nor files listed.
Whereas POSIX lists three synopses, and later in 'cut --help' mentions
that cut requires exactly one of -b, -c, or -f (unless you are using
- --help or --version).
How about this for a patch:
ChangeLog:
2007-04-05 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/cut.c (usage): Improve --help output.
Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
doc/ChangeLog:
2007-04-05 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Improve cut synopsis.
Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 81b1fc7..d211515 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -4921,7 +4921,9 @@ input file, or standard input if no files are given or
for a file name of
@samp{-}. Synopsis:
@example
-cut [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{}
+cut -b @var{byte-list} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{}
+cut -c @var{character-list} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{}
+cut -f @var{field-list} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{}
@end example
In the table which follows, the @var{byte-list}, @var{character-list},
diff --git a/src/cut.c b/src/cut.c
index c9b8359..fc385bf 100644
--- a/src/cut.c
+++ b/src/cut.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* cut - remove parts of lines of files
- Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1984 David M. Ihnat
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -186,7 +186,9 @@ usage (int status)
else
{
printf (_("\
-Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
+Usage: %s -b LIST [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
+ or: %s -c LIST [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
+ or: %s -f LIST [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
"),
program_name);
fputs (_("\
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