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author | Karel Zak | 2019-02-26 12:25:21 +0100 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2019-02-26 12:25:21 +0100 |
commit | 69e0e554d715fdc01288a485b028b78265a915f5 (patch) | |
tree | 6e876a4373b6ed240a30c955794cf374504bba45 | |
parent | libfdisk: (dos) Use strtoul to parse the label-id (diff) | |
parent | column: Address fill-order confusion in documentation (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'dana/column-x' of https://github.com/okdana/util-linux
* 'dana/column-x' of https://github.com/okdana/util-linux:
column: Address fill-order confusion in documentation
-rw-r--r-- | text-utils/column.1 | 11 |
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diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1 index 9ce5879e5..84243b5bd 100644 --- a/text-utils/column.1 +++ b/text-utils/column.1 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)column.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.TH COLUMN 1 "January 2017" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH COLUMN 1 "February 2019" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME column \- columnate lists .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -168,6 +168,15 @@ New output (since util-linux 2.23): a b c 1 3 .EE +.PP +Historical versions of this tool indicated that "rows are filled before +columns" by default, and that the +.B \-x +option reverses this. This wording did not reflect the actual behavior, and it +has since been corrected (see above). Other implementations of +.B column +may continue to use the older documentation, but the behavior should be +identical in any case. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR colrm (1), .BR ls (1), |