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authorBenno Schulenberg2014-12-22 22:57:17 +0100
committerKarel Zak2015-01-06 11:27:38 +0100
commit451dbcfae1406f526208faf6033d6dcc8ac100da (patch)
tree594265cfbfad9989191ae3df877d7e6c300699a8 /sys-utils/fallocate.c
parentchsh: keep struct options in .rodata (diff)
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textual: add a docstring to most of the utilities
This adds a concise description of a tool to its usage text. A first form of this patch was proposed by Steven Honeyman (see http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg09994.html). Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/fallocate.c b/sys-utils/fallocate.c
index 0e06524b8..0e4eb4971 100644
--- a/sys-utils/fallocate.c
+++ b/sys-utils/fallocate.c
@@ -76,8 +76,11 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out)
fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out);
fprintf(out,
_(" %s [options] <filename>\n"), program_invocation_short_name);
- fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out);
+ fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out);
+ fputs(_("Preallocate space to, or deallocate space from a file.\n"), out);
+
+ fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out);
fputs(_(" -c, --collapse-range remove a range from the file\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -d, --dig-holes detect zeroes and replace with holes\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -l, --length <num> length for range operations, in bytes\n"), out);