Hi, Attached patch adapts the help text of 'su' to consistently use angular brackets to mark to-be-filled-in arguments. Regards, Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different...
From 7e86620bb1f02add3be5a04f7b4ae6c168570279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:06:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] textual: consistent angular brackets and lowercase in help text of 'su' Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- login-utils/su-common.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/login-utils/su-common.c b/login-utils/su-common.c index bd168ce..d1a7339 100644 --- a/login-utils/su-common.c +++ b/login-utils/su-common.c @@ -627,24 +627,23 @@ usage (int status) { if (su_mode == RUNUSER_MODE) { fputs(USAGE_HEADER, stdout); - printf (_(" %s [options] -u <USER> COMMAND\n"), program_invocation_short_name); - printf (_(" %s [options] [-] [USER [arg]...]\n"), program_invocation_short_name); + printf (_(" %s [options] -u <user> <command>\n"), program_invocation_short_name); + printf (_(" %s [options] [-] [<user> [<argument>...]]\n"), program_invocation_short_name); fputs (_("\n" - "Run COMMAND with the effective <user> id and group id. If -u not\n" - "given, fallback to su(1) compatible semantic and shell is executed.\n" + "Run <command> with the effective user ID and group ID of <user>. If -u is\n" + "not given, fall back to su(1)-compatible semantics and execute standard shell.\n" "The options -l, -c, -f, -s are mutually exclusive to -u.\n"), stdout); fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, stdout); - fputs (_( - " -u, --user <user> username\n"), stdout); + fputs (_(" -u, --user <user> username\n"), stdout); } else { fputs(USAGE_HEADER, stdout); - printf (_(" %s [options] [-] [USER [arg]...]\n"), program_invocation_short_name); + printf (_(" %s [options] [-] [<user> [<argument>...]]\n"), program_invocation_short_name); fputs (_("\n" - "Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.\n" - "A mere - implies -l. If USER not given, assume root.\n"), stdout); + "Change the effective user ID and group ID to that of <user>.\n" + "A mere - implies -l. If <user> is not given, root is assumed.\n"), stdout); fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, stdout); } @@ -655,10 +654,10 @@ usage (int status) fputs (_(" -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell\n"), stdout); fputs (_(" -c, --command <command> pass a single command to the shell with -c\n"), stdout); - fputs (_(" --session-command <command> pass a single command to the shell with -c\n"), stdout); - fputs (_(" and do not create a new session\n"), stdout); + fputs (_(" --session-command <command> pass a single command to the shell with -c\n" + " and do not create a new session\n"), stdout); fputs (_(" -f, --fast pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh)\n"), stdout); - fputs (_(" -s, --shell <shell> run shell if /etc/shells allows it\n"), stdout); + fputs (_(" -s, --shell <shell> run <shell> if /etc/shells allows it\n"), stdout); fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, stdout); fputs(USAGE_HELP, stdout); -- 1.7.0.4