Bernhard Gabler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we found a bug in join's self-documentation: > > join --help > > produces a help text which uses 'SIDE' to describe the -a and -v > options. However, the description of what SIDE stands for is missing. > > The same bug appears in the man page to 'join'.
Thank you for reporting that! Here's how I've fixed it: FYI, the textutils package has been subsumed by the GNU coreutils. Here's the latest: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.7.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) Index: join.c =================================================================== RCS file: /fetish/cu/src/join.c,v retrieving revision 1.107 retrieving revision 1.108 diff -u -p -u -r1.107 -r1.108 --- join.c 31 Aug 2002 08:52:10 -0000 1.107 +++ join.c 19 Feb 2003 16:11:39 -0000 1.108 @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ For each pair of input lines with identi standard output. The default join field is the first, delimited\n\ by whitespace. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not both) is -, read standard input.\n\ \n\ - -a SIDE print unpairable lines coming from file SIDE\n\ + -a FILENUM print unpairable lines coming from file FILENUM, where\n\ + FILENUM is 1 or 2, corresponding to FILE1 or FILE2\n\ -e EMPTY replace missing input fields with EMPTY\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ @@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ by whitespace. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not -t CHAR use CHAR as input and output field separator\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ - -v SIDE like -a SIDE, but suppress joined output lines\n\ + -v FILENUM like -a FILENUM, but suppress joined output lines\n\ -1 FIELD join on this FIELD of file 1\n\ -2 FIELD join on this FIELD of file 2\n\ "), stdout); @@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ by whitespace. When FILE1 or FILE2 (not Unless -t CHAR is given, leading blanks separate fields and are ignored,\n\ else fields are separated by CHAR. Any FIELD is a field number counted\n\ from 1. FORMAT is one or more comma or blank separated specifications,\n\ -each being `SIDE.FIELD' or `0'. Default FORMAT outputs the join field,\n\ +each being `FILENUM.FIELD' or `0'. Default FORMAT outputs the join field,\n\ the remaining fields from FILE1, the remaining fields from FILE2, all\n\ separated by CHAR.\n\ "), stdout); _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
