A trivial patch make tail --help less confusing to me at least
From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:50:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: make the tail --sleep-interval help less confusing
* src/tail.c (usage): I read "approximately S seconds"
as "approximately 5 seconds" for approximately 5 seconds.
---
src/tail.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index f0dbf5d..2c59c3d 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.\n\
name, i.e., with --follow=name\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
- -s, --sleep-interval=S with -f, sleep for approximately S seconds\n\
+ -s, --sleep-interval=N with -f, sleep for approximately N seconds\n\
(default 1.0) between iterations\n\
-v, --verbose always output headers giving file names\n\
"), stdout);
--
