Thanks for the input; I won't persue such verbose usages any longer.
Another attempt was to continue grouping the commands by their arguments:
$ ldomctl -h
usage: ldomctl command [argument ...]
ldomctl delete|select configuration
ldomctl download directory
ldomctl dump
ldomctl list
ldomctl init-system file
ldomctl panic|start|status|stop [domain]
But this still seems long enough and even harder to read, so the
following patch simply cuts it to the synopsis as per the manual:
$ ldomctl -h
usage: ldomctl command [argument ...]
It contains less information than before, but is actually consistent
and not incomplete any longer, which bothers me with the current usage.
Feedback? Obections? OK?
Index: ldomctl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/ldomctl/ldomctl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -p -r1.21 ldomctl.c
--- ldomctl.c 15 Sep 2018 13:20:16 -0000 1.21
+++ ldomctl.c 1 Jul 2019 19:45:59 -0000
@@ -157,10 +157,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
void
usage(void)
{
- extern char *__progname;
-
- fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s start|stop|panic domain\n", __progname);
- fprintf(stderr, " %s status [domain]\n", __progname);
+ fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s command [argument ...]\n", getprogname());
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
