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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-07-14 11:02:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2014-07-14 16:21:34 +0200 |
| commit | 1f94a78ce8962fbc9cacd0eb7be220dc0a8e3201 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ca00a17222f5d42630a9970758be2c0abf0ed27 /text-utils/hexdump.1 | |
| parent | build-sys: exclude Documentation/ from looking for translatable strings (diff) | |
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docs: improve formatting and wording of a few man pages
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/hexdump.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/hexdump.1 | 23 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1 index f8ee8ef71..8f1110301 100644 --- a/text-utils/hexdump.1 +++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ hexdump \- display file contents in ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, or octal .SH SYNOPSIS .B hexdump -.RI [options] file ... +.RI [options] " file" ... .SH DESCRIPTION The .B hexdump @@ -44,10 +44,10 @@ utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or standard input if no files are specified, in a user-specified format. .SH OPTIONS -The \fIlength\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative -suffixes KiB=1024, MiB=1024*1024, and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB -(the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes -KB=1000, MB=1000*1000, and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. +Below, the \fIlength\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative +suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB +(the "iB" is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB"), or the suffixes +KB (=1000), MB (=1000*1000), and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB. .TP \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-one\-byte\-octal\fR \fIOne-byte octal display\fR. Display the input offset in hexadecimal, @@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ by the same sixteen bytes in format enclosed in .RB ' | ' characters. -.IP "\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]" -Accept color units for the output (enabled by default). The optional argument \fIwhen\fP -can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted, -then it defaults to \fBauto\fR. .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-two\-bytes\-decimal\fR \fITwo-byte decimal display\fR. Display the input offset in hexadecimal, @@ -80,11 +76,16 @@ of input data, in unsigned decimal, per line. \fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-format\fR \fIformat_string\fR Specify a format string to be used for displaying data. .TP -\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-format\-file\fR \fIfile\fR -Specify a file that contains one or more newline separated format strings. +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-format\-file\fR \fIfile\fR +Specify a file that contains one or more newline-separated format strings. Empty lines and lines whose first non-blank character is a hash mark (\&#) are ignored. .TP +\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR] +Accept color units for the output (enabled by default). The optional argument \fIwhen\fP +can be \fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted, +then it defaults to \fBauto\fR. +.TP \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-length\fR \fIlength\fR Interpret only .I length |