Due to the way help2man indents tagged paragraphs, some of the tail --help
messages come out are separated into different paragraphs accidentally.
The following patch corrects this.
-- 
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
--- src/tail.c.orig     Sun Jul  8 21:20:15 2001
+++ src/tail.c  Sun Jul  8 21:23:37 2001
@@ -243,22 +243,23 @@
 With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.\n\
 \n\
       --retry              keep trying to open a file even if it is\n\
-                             inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes\n\
-                             inaccessible later -- useful only with -f\n\
+                           inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes\n\
+                           inaccessible later -- useful only with -f\n\
   -c, --bytes=N            output the last N bytes\n\
-  -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}] output appended data as the file grows;\n\
-                             -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are\n\
-                             equivalent\n\
+  -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]\n\
+                           output appended data as the file grows;\n\
+                           -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are\n\
+                           equivalent\n\
   -n, --lines=N            output the last N lines, instead of the last %d\n\
       --max-unchanged-stats=N\n\
                            with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not\n\
-                             changed size after N (default %d) iterations\n\
-                             to see if it has been unlinked or renamed\n\
-                             (this is the usual case of rotated log files)\n\
+                           changed size after N (default %d) iterations\n\
+                           to see if it has been unlinked or renamed\n\
+                           (this is the usual case of rotated log files)\n\
       --pid=PID            with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies\n\
   -q, --quiet, --silent    never output headers giving file names\n\
   -s, --sleep-interval=S   with -f, each iteration lasts approximately S\n\
-                             (default 1) seconds\n\
+                           (default 1) seconds\n\
   -v, --verbose            always output headers giving file names\n\
       --help               display this help and exit\n\
       --version            output version information and exit\n\

Reply via email to