The rest of the page writes the characters without naming them. Follow that convention. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> --- man3/getopt.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3 index e88321ed0..0d6ad1c54 100644 --- a/man3/getopt.3 +++ b/man3/getopt.3 @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ A legitimate option character is any visible one byte .BR ascii (7) character (for which .BR isgraph (3) -would return nonzero) that is not dash (\(aq\-\(aq) or colon (\(aq:\(aq). +would return nonzero) that is not \(aq\-\(aq or \(aq:\(aq. If such a character is followed by a colon, the option requires an argument, so .BR getopt () -- 2.31.1
