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| author | Sami Kerola | 2014-05-24 11:58:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Sami Kerola | 2014-05-26 17:35:59 +0200 |
| commit | f0dcd918eb785388dd6f70b17d42024e75ec3b4d (patch) | |
| tree | e7f779c23237dfedc6f65f949c6e070099716ee1 /term-utils/setterm.1 | |
| parent | docs: setterm.1 add missing options to manual page and remove duplicate (diff) | |
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docs: setterm.1 add options compatibility note
Both --option and -option formats are accepted.
Reviewed-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/setterm.1')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/setterm.1 b/term-utils/setterm.1 index cc69617e4..eb4f00d16 100644 --- a/term-utils/setterm.1 +++ b/term-utils/setterm.1 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" Undocumented: -snow, -softscroll, -standout; these are .\" commented out in the source .\" -.TH SETTERM 1 "January 2000" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH SETTERM 1 "May 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME setterm \- set terminal attributes .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -196,6 +196,16 @@ Display version information and exit. .TP .BR \-\-help Display help text and exit. +.SH COMPATIBILITY +Since version 2.25 the +.B setterm +has support for long options with two hyphens, for example +.BR \-\-help , +beside the historical long options with a single hyphen, for example +.BR \-help . +In scripts it is better to use the backward compatible single hyphen +rather than the double hyphen. Currently there are no plans or good +reasons to discontinue single hyphen compatibility. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR tput (1), .BR stty (1), |