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authorJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2021-01-31 09:10:01 -0800
committerJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2021-01-31 14:09:46 -0800
commit70517057c9234146d56bb05cc22cd62ab6407c86 (patch)
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downloadgrep-70517057c9234146d56bb05cc22cd62ab6407c86.tar.gz
doc: man: fix -L description and improve -l's
* doc/grep.texi (-L): Remove erroneous sentence about stopping early. With -L, grep cannot stop scanning early. (-l): Tweak existing wording. * doc/grep.in.1: Remove the -L sentence here, too. (-l): Copy the sentence from grep.texi, to clarify: it's only per-file scanning that stops upon match. Reported by Robert Bruntz in http://debbugs.gnu.org/46179
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/grep.in.13
-rw-r--r--doc/grep.texi3
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1
index db270dd8..c0b6b405 100644
--- a/doc/grep.in.1
+++ b/doc/grep.in.1
@@ -319,13 +319,12 @@ is
Suppress normal output; instead print the name
of each input file from which no output would
normally have been printed.
-The scanning will stop on the first match.
.TP
.BR \-l ", " \-\^\-files\-with\-matches
Suppress normal output; instead print
the name of each input file from which output
would normally have been printed.
-The scanning will stop on the first match.
+Scanning each input file stops upon first match.
.TP
.BI \-m " NUM" "\fR,\fP \-\^\-max\-count=" NUM
Stop reading a file after
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index 19099ccc..e3b1555b 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -323,7 +323,6 @@ which only covers the color for matched text.
Suppress normal output;
instead print the name of each input file from which
no output would normally have been printed.
-The scanning of each file stops on the first match.
@item -l
@itemx --files-with-matches
@@ -333,7 +332,7 @@ The scanning of each file stops on the first match.
Suppress normal output;
instead print the name of each input file from which
output would normally have been printed.
-The scanning of each file stops on the first match.
+Scanning each input file stops upon first match.
(@option{-l} is specified by POSIX.)
@item -m @var{num}