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authorPaolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2009-12-22 10:18:07 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2009-12-22 12:26:41 +0100
commitab21b6037ec92eea32c3cf57220f3b2e567d784d (patch)
treef78cf5e5792b436d0add4aca09f75390cec50577 /doc
parent246dcbdb86292eb65d20ece05ecab823653e8411 (diff)
downloadgrep-ab21b6037ec92eea32c3cf57220f3b2e567d784d.tar.gz
Improve description of --label
Fixes bug 22681. * doc/grep.1 (--label): Use -H in the example, improve wording. * doc/grep.texi (Output Line Prefix Control): Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/grep.14
-rw-r--r--doc/grep.texi8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.1 b/doc/grep.1
index 950b82c5..c0ea754b 100644
--- a/doc/grep.1
+++ b/doc/grep.1
@@ -314,10 +314,10 @@ This is the default when there is only one file
.BI \-\^\-label= LABEL
Display input actually coming from standard input as input coming from file
.I LABEL.
-This is especially useful for tools like
+This is especially useful when implementing tools like
.BR zgrep ,
e.g.,
-.B "gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo something"
+.B "gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo -H something"
.TP
.BR \-n ", " \-\^\-line\-number
Prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index 2714c58e..a4a87f6a 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -414,12 +414,12 @@ This is the default when there is only one file
@opindex --label
@cindex changing name of standard input
Display input actually coming from standard input
-as input coming from file @var{LABEL}.
-This is especially useful for tools like @command{zgrep};
-e.g.:
+as input coming from file @var{LABEL}. This is
+especially useful when implementing tools like
+@command{zgrep}; e.g.:
@example
-gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo something
+gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo -H something
@end example
@item -n