message string changes, mostly for consistency, also -32 bytes in .rodata

6 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/chown.c b/coreutils/chown.c
index b73f66a89..42f973f32 100644
--- a/coreutils/chown.c
+++ b/coreutils/chown.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ static int fileAction(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf,
 				(gid == (gid_t)-1) ? statbuf->st_gid : gid)) {
 		return TRUE;
 	}
-	bb_perror_msg("%s", fileName);	/* A filename could have % in it... */
+	bb_perror_msg("%s", fileName);	/* A filename can have % in it... */
 	return FALSE;
 }
 
diff --git a/coreutils/du.c b/coreutils/du.c
index f61d978b7..efc449097 100644
--- a/coreutils/du.c
+++ b/coreutils/du.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int du_main(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	/* Note: SUSv3 specifies that -a and -s options can not be used together
+	/* Note: SUSv3 specifies that -a and -s options cannot be used together
 	 * in strictly conforming applications.  However, it also says that some
 	 * du implementations may produce output when -a and -s are used together.
 	 * gnu du exits with an error code in this case.  We choose to simply
diff --git a/coreutils/expr.c b/coreutils/expr.c
index e7fdc5f1e..ea99d8b5b 100644
--- a/coreutils/expr.c
+++ b/coreutils/expr.c
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ of a basic regular expression is not portable; it is being ignored", pv->u.s);
 	memset(&re_buffer, 0, sizeof(re_buffer));
 	memset(re_regs, 0, sizeof(*re_regs));
 	if (regcomp(&re_buffer, pv->u.s, 0) != 0)
-		bb_error_msg_and_die("Invalid regular expression");
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("invalid regular expression");
 
 	/* expr uses an anchored pattern match, so check that there was a
 	 * match and that the match starts at offset 0. */
diff --git a/coreutils/install.c b/coreutils/install.c
index 2178d435d..54adc2b6e 100644
--- a/coreutils/install.c
+++ b/coreutils/install.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ int install_main(int argc, char **argv)
 	umask(0);
 
 	/* Create directories
-	 * dont use bb_make_directory() as it cant change uid or gid
+	 * don't use bb_make_directory() as it can't change uid or gid
 	 * perhaps bb_make_directory() should be improved.
 	 */
 	if (flags & INSTALL_OPT_DIRECTORY) {
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ int install_main(int argc, char **argv)
 				}
 				if (mkdir(*argv, mode) == -1) {
 					if (errno != EEXIST) {
-						bb_perror_msg("coulnt create %s", *argv);
+						bb_perror_msg("cannot create %s", *argv);
 						ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
 						break;
 					}
diff --git a/coreutils/nohup.c b/coreutils/nohup.c
index 439fbb173..21adfc1c3 100644
--- a/coreutils/nohup.c
+++ b/coreutils/nohup.c
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ int nohup_main(int argc, char **argv)
 	 * Else redirect to /dev/null.
 	 */
 	temp = isatty(STDERR_FILENO);
-	if (temp) bb_error_msg("Appending to %s", nohupout);
+	if (temp) bb_error_msg("appending to %s", nohupout);
 	dup2(temp ? STDOUT_FILENO : nullfd, STDERR_FILENO);
 	close(nullfd);
 	signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);
 
 	execvp(argv[1],argv+1);
 	if (00 && ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP && home) free(nohupout);
-	bb_perror_msg_and_die("%s",argv[1]);
+	bb_perror_msg_and_die("%s", argv[1]);
 }
diff --git a/coreutils/realpath.c b/coreutils/realpath.c
index 993fa1c9d..0fd2c7625 100644
--- a/coreutils/realpath.c
+++ b/coreutils/realpath.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 /* Mar 16, 2003      Manuel Novoa III   (mjn3@codepoet.org)
  *
  * Now does proper error checking on output and returns a failure exit code
- * if one or more paths can not be resolved.
+ * if one or more paths cannot be resolved.
  *
  * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
  */