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authorBenno Schulenberg2015-11-08 11:54:12 +0100
committerKarel Zak2015-11-09 10:03:58 +0100
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dmseg: slightly improve punctuation and formatting of the manpage
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
index b3eb281f5..199eacb3d 100644
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+++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ then only the time delta without the timestamp is printed.
.IP "\fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-console\-on\fR"
Enable printing messages to the console.
.IP "\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-reltime\fR"
-Display the local time and the delta in human-readable format. Be aware that
-conversion to the local time could be inaccurate (see \fB\-T\fR) for more
-details.
+Display the local time and the delta in human-readable format. Be aware that
+conversion to the local time could be inaccurate (see \fB\-T\fR for more
+details).
.IP "\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-file \fIfile\fR"
Read the messages from the given
.IR file .
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Print kernel messages.
.IP "\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]"
Colorize the output. The optional argument \fIwhen\fP
can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted,
-it defaults to \fBauto\fR. The colors can be disabled, for the current built-in default
-see \fB\-\-help\fR output. See also the COLORS section.
+it defaults to \fBauto\fR. The colors can be disabled; for the current built-in default
+see the \fB\-\-help\fR output. See also the \fBCOLORS\fR section below.
.IP "\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-level \fIlist\fR"
Restrict output to the given (comma-separated)
.I list