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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2015-11-08 11:54:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2015-11-09 10:03:58 +0100 |
| commit | e8cf378e48ff0d669468e5118c290d761a224663 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fde998493c6bfcd100c6dbc2983ded6516b5702 /text-utils/hexdump.1 | |
| parent | dmseg: slightly improve punctuation and formatting of the manpage (diff) | |
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hexdump: fix a typo and tweak some wordings in the manpage
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/hexdump.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/hexdump.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1 index c7d75998f..af8433d74 100644 --- a/text-utils/hexdump.1 +++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1 @@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ are ignored. \fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR] Accept color units for 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 subsection and +the \fBCOLORS\fR section below. .TP \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-length\fR \fIlength\fR Interpret only @@ -335,9 +336,9 @@ conversion character or conversion string but with any .RB ' \&# ' conversion flag characters removed, and referencing a NULL string. .PP -If no format strings are specified, the default display is very simular to the -\fB\-x\fR -output format (the \fB\-x\fR uses more space between format units than the default output). +If no format strings are specified, the default display is very similar to +the \fB\-x\fR output format (the \fB\-x\fR option causes more space to be +used between format units than in the default output). .SH "EXIT STATUS" .B hexdump exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurred. |