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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-07-25 14:55:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-07-28 11:16:53 +0200 |
| commit | 5e43af7e345310f734cbfb5a0bd6ee040cf178a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 66ebfcc75105d5cba715f2526b1f528c14b9aba8 /sys-utils/dmesg.1 | |
| parent | cfdisk: reenable cursor when quitting (diff) | |
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docs: fix some things that were overlooked during the first pass
Mainly more option sorting, some formatting adjustments, and the adding
of a missing --version here and there.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/dmesg.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/dmesg.1 | 29 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 index 86d35df06..8a267f867 100644 --- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 +++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dmesg \- print or control the kernel ring buffer .B dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. .PP -The default action is to read all messages from the kernel ring buffer. +The default action is to display all messages from the kernel ring buffer. .SH OPTIONS The .BR \-\-clear , @@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ output. .IP "\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-human\fR" Enable human-readable output. See also \fB\-\-color\fR, \fB\-\-reltime\fR and \fB\-\-nopager\fR. -.IP "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR" -Display help text and exit. .IP "\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-kernel\fR" Print kernel messages. .IP "\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]" @@ -152,15 +150,6 @@ system .BR SUSPEND / RESUME . .IP "\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-notime\fR" Do not print kernel's timestamps. -.IP "\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-userspace\fR" -Print userspace messages. -.IP "\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR" -Display version information and exit. -.IP "\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-follow\fR" -Wait for new messages. This feature is supported only on systems with -a readable /dev/kmsg (since kernel 3.5.0). -.IP "\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-decode\fR" -Decode facility and level (priority) numbers to human-readable prefixes. .IP "\fB\-\-time\-format\fR \fIformat\fR" Print timestamps using the given \fIformat\fR, which can be .BR ctime , @@ -183,6 +172,22 @@ The format has the same issue as .BR ctime : the time may be inaccurate when a system is suspended and resumed. +.TP +.BR \-u , " \-\-userspace" +Print userspace messages. +.TP +.BR \-w , " \-\-follow" +Wait for new messages. This feature is supported only on systems with +a readable /dev/kmsg (since kernel 3.5.0). +.TP +.BR \-x , " \-\-decode" +Decode facility and level (priority) numbers to human-readable prefixes. +.TP +.BR \-V , " \-\-version" +Display version information and exit. +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help" +Display help text and exit. .SH COLORS Implicit coloring can be disabled by an empty file \fI/etc/terminal-colors.d/dmesg.disable\fR. See |