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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2014-12-22 22:57:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2015-01-06 11:27:38 +0100 |
| commit | 451dbcfae1406f526208faf6033d6dcc8ac100da (patch) | |
| tree | 594265cfbfad9989191ae3df877d7e6c300699a8 /text-utils/hexdump.c | |
| parent | chsh: 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'text-utils/hexdump.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | text-utils/hexdump.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.c b/text-utils/hexdump.c index afae33472..9ee5cb7c9 100644 --- a/text-utils/hexdump.c +++ b/text-utils/hexdump.c @@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE *out) { fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out); fprintf(out, _(" %s [options] <file>...\n"), program_invocation_short_name); + + fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out); + fputs(_("Display file contents in hexadecimal, decimal, octal, or ascii.\n"), out); + fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out); fputs(_(" -b, --one-byte-octal one-byte octal display\n"), out); fputs(_(" -c, --one-byte-char one-byte character display\n"), out); |