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| author | Karel Zak | 2019-05-31 11:50:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2019-05-31 11:57:29 +0200 |
| commit | f7c5507db6c54bfb076c91106696c0047a947adf (patch) | |
| tree | c4cfc7efc4216eb93659cb29a42af639aaa6ffee /misc-utils | |
| parent | docs: add lscpu --caches to ReleaseNotes (diff) | |
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hardlink: fix bad formatting in hardlink.1
* fix regex\f to regex\fR (issue #805)
* replace \fP with \fR to be consistent with our another man pages
Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/805
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/hardlink.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 index c564fd76a..97fc569da 100644 --- a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 +++ b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 @@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ hardlink \- Consolidate duplicate files via hardlinks .RI [ directory ...] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP -This manual page documents \fBhardlink\fP, a +This manual page documents \fBhardlink\fR, a program which consolidates duplicate files in one or more directories using hardlinks. .PP -\fBhardlink\fP traverses one +\fBhardlink\fR traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate files. When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the master. It then removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink for each one pointing to the master file. This allows for conservation of disk space where multiple directories on a single filesystem contain many duplicate files. .PP -Since hard links can only span a single filesystem, \fBhardlink\fP +Since hard links can only span a single filesystem, \fBhardlink\fR is only useful when all directories specified are on the same filesystem. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Do not perform the consolidation; only print what would be changed. .TP .BR \-v , " \-\-verbose" Print summary after hardlinking. The option may be specified more than once. In -this case (e.g. \fB-vv\fP) it prints every hardlinked file and bytes saved. +this case (e.g. \fB-vv\fR) it prints every hardlinked file and bytes saved. .TP -.BR \-x , " \-\-exclude " \fIregex\f +.BR \-x , " \-\-exclude " \fIregex\fR Exclude files and directories matching pattern from hardlinking. .sp The optional pattern for excluding files and directories must be a PCRE2 @@ -50,19 +50,19 @@ Display help text and exit. Display version information and exit. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP -\fBhardlink\fP was written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> and later modified by +\fBhardlink\fR was written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> and later modified by Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@ga-group.nl> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> for util-linux. .PP Man page written by Brian Long and later updated by Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> .SH "BUGS" .PP -\fBhardlink\fP assumes that its target directory trees do not change from under -it. If a directory tree does change, this may result in \fBhardlink\fP +\fBhardlink\fR assumes that its target directory trees do not change from under +it. If a directory tree does change, this may result in \fBhardlink\fR accessing files and/or directories outside of the intended directory tree. -Thus, you must avoid running \fBhardlink\fP on potentially changing directory +Thus, you must avoid running \fBhardlink\fR on potentially changing directory trees, and especially on directory trees under control of another user. .PP -Historically \fBhardlink\fP silently excluded any names beginning with +Historically \fBhardlink\fR silently excluded any names beginning with ".in.", as well as any names beginning with "." followed by exactly 6 other characters. That prior behavior can be achieved by specifying .br |