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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-04-12 15:12:06 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2004-04-12 15:12:06 +0000
commitf802ff76d09e4b2bd2bdb24a5da3b99b10c025df (patch)
treeb199722b0f2458a3af0925dd95e5fb160d35cfe7
parent2d71756217af03048c4f9d7a9b56d0bbb38dc3bb (diff)
downloadbusybox-f802ff76d09e4b2bd2bdb24a5da3b99b10c025df.tar.gz
Patch from Rob Landley to fix sed documentation.
The -i option was not documented, and in genereal the formatting was a bit ugly.
-rw-r--r--include/usage.h12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index 00cbe5608..4401a763a 100644
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -2106,11 +2106,15 @@
"Options:\n" \
"\t-n\t\tsuppress automatic printing of pattern space\n" \
"\t-e script\tadd the script to the commands to be executed\n" \
- "\t-f scriptfile\tadd the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed\n" \
+ "\t-f scriptfile\tadd script-file contents to the\n" \
+ "\t\t\tcommands to be executed\n" \
+ "\t-i\t\tEdit files in-place\n" \
"\n" \
- "If no -e or -f is given, the first non-option argument is taken as the\n" \
- "sed script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input\n" \
- "files; if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read."
+ "If no -e or -f is given, the first non-option argument is taken as the sed\n"\
+ "script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input files; if no\n"\
+ "input files are specified, then the standard input is read. Source files\n" \
+ "will not be modified unless -i option is given."
+
#define sed_example_usage \
"$ echo "foo" | sed -e 's/f[a-zA-Z]o/bar/g'\n" \
"bar\n"