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Re: (man|info) pages and --help


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: (man|info) pages and --help
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:20:55 -0400

   I'm tempted to say add a one-liner, but there are already *four*
   lines at the end of even the smallest --help output message, e.g.,

       $ sync --help
       Usage: sync [OPTION]
       Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block.

             --help     display this help and exit
             --version  output version information and exit

       Report sync bugs to address@hidden
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

   I guess you'd like to see this added:

     For complete documentation, run "info coreutils 'sync invocation'"

Might not work on broken systems.

   Maybe.
   Though I'm tempted to remove the "Report ... translation bugs..."
   line when using the C (or maybe all of en_*, too) locale.

I like that idea.

   Other opinions?

Only that it is already to much info there...




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