On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 07:37:52PM +0200, S??bastien Marie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would report (and correct) an invalid usage statement of file(1).
>
> $ file
> usage: file [-bchiLsW] [file ...]
>
> $ man file | grep -A1 'SY'
> SYNOPSIS
> file [-bchiLsW] file ...
>
> As at least one argument is mandatory, removing the [] would make sens.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> S??bastien Marie
>
not exactly..."file -c" works, for example. but i think it makes most
sense to show it as being required, and this way at least the doc/usage
are in sync.
so, fixed now.
jmc
>
> Index: file.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/file/file.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -p -r1.32 file.c
> --- file.c 24 Apr 2015 17:34:57 -0000 1.32
> +++ file.c 28 May 2015 17:30:09 -0000
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct option longopts[] = {
> __dead void
> usage(void)
> {
> - fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [-bchiLsW] [file ...]\n", __progname);
> + fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [-bchiLsW] file ...\n", __progname);
> exit(1);
> }
>
>
