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authorElliott Hughes <enh@google.com>2019-03-02 11:21:25 -0800
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2019-03-02 14:12:24 -0600
commitd588ba74439604cf29100aec7cd1da640a5d6fe5 (patch)
tree458245b19a5af436925a238da9d779a038dcf968 /toys/posix
parentb8001d13a68b1b05bff7008fd657af0563890d3f (diff)
downloadtoybox-d588ba74439604cf29100aec7cd1da640a5d6fe5.tar.gz
Improve help consistency.
More consistent tense, capitalization, and punctuation. A few commands were missing an introductory line, so I copied those from the first comment line.
Diffstat (limited to 'toys/posix')
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/comm.c2
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/cp.c2
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/cpio.c2
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/ls.c2
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/od.c2
-rw-r--r--toys/posix/unlink.c2
6 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/toys/posix/comm.c b/toys/posix/comm.c
index 33c056d3..c5c8f851 100644
--- a/toys/posix/comm.c
+++ b/toys/posix/comm.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ config COMM
help
usage: comm [-123] FILE1 FILE2
- Reads FILE1 and FILE2, which should be ordered, and produces three text
+ Read FILE1 and FILE2, which should be ordered, and produce three text
columns as output: lines only in FILE1; lines only in FILE2; and lines
in both files. Filename "-" is a synonym for stdin.
diff --git a/toys/posix/cp.c b/toys/posix/cp.c
index 5e1a0163..ddbfe125 100644
--- a/toys/posix/cp.c
+++ b/toys/posix/cp.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ config MV
bool "mv"
default y
help
- usage: mv [-fivn] SOURCE... DEST"
+ usage: mv [-fivn] SOURCE... DEST
-f Force copy by deleting destination file
-i Interactive, prompt before overwriting existing DEST
diff --git a/toys/posix/cpio.c b/toys/posix/cpio.c
index 80567fd6..97b4035f 100644
--- a/toys/posix/cpio.c
+++ b/toys/posix/cpio.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ config CPIO
usage: cpio -{o|t|i|p DEST} [-v] [--verbose] [-F FILE] [--no-preserve-owner]
[ignored: -mdu -H newc]
- copy files into and out of a "newc" format cpio archive
+ Copy files into and out of a "newc" format cpio archive.
-F FILE Use archive FILE instead of stdin/stdout
-p DEST Copy-pass mode, copy stdin file list to directory DEST
diff --git a/toys/posix/ls.c b/toys/posix/ls.c
index d24168d6..287c3da6 100644
--- a/toys/posix/ls.c
+++ b/toys/posix/ls.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ config LS
help
usage: ls [-ACFHLRSZacdfhiklmnpqrstux1] [--color[=auto]] [directory...]
- list files
+ List files.
what to show:
-a all files including .hidden -b escape nongraphic chars
diff --git a/toys/posix/od.c b/toys/posix/od.c
index f45c8654..f0edcd76 100644
--- a/toys/posix/od.c
+++ b/toys/posix/od.c
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ config OD
help
usage: od [-bcdosxv] [-j #] [-N #] [-w #] [-A doxn] [-t acdfoux[#]]
+ Dump data in octal/hex.
+
-A Address base (decimal, octal, hexadecimal, none)
-j Skip this many bytes of input
-N Stop dumping after this many bytes
diff --git a/toys/posix/unlink.c b/toys/posix/unlink.c
index 4faef9dc..f5faab06 100644
--- a/toys/posix/unlink.c
+++ b/toys/posix/unlink.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config UNLINK
help
usage: unlink FILE
- Deletes one file.
+ Delete one file.
*/
#include "toys.h"