docs/143454: [patch] mtree.8 man page errors
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Feb 1 21:20:01 UTC 2010
>Number: 143454
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] mtree.8 man page errors
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 01 21:20:00 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Warren Block
>Release: 8-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD lightning 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 31 11:43:29 MST 2010 root at lightning:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGHTNING i386
>Description:
Missing words and confused tenses in the mtree(8) man page.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 8 mtree
>Fix:
Patch attached. Beyond this, someone more familiar with mtree could improve this man page by adding a simple example of creating a spec and comparing it.
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- mtree.8.orig 2010-02-01 13:25:32.000000000 -0700
+++ mtree.8 2010-02-01 14:07:30.000000000 -0700
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
specification.
.It Fl i
Indent the output 4 spaces each time a directory level is descended when
-create a specification with the
+creating a specification with the
.Fl c
option.
This does not affect either the /set statements or the comment before each
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
except a status of 2 is returned if the file hierarchy did not match
the specification.
.It Fl w
-Make some errorconditions non-fatal warnings.
+Make some error conditions non-fatal warnings.
.It Fl x
Do not descend below mount points in the file hierarchy.
.It Fl f Ar file
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
.Pp
If this option is specified twice, the two specifications are compared
to each other rather than to the file hierarchy.
-The specifications be sorted like output generated using
+The specifications will be sorted like output generated using
.Fl c .
The output format in this case is somewhat remniscent of
.Xr comm 1 ,
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