[Toybox] [PATCH] Canonicalize the usage: lines for the POSIX toys.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Feb 2 00:03:01 PST 2020
On 2/2/20 12:16 AM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> This only touches 24 of the 68 toys/posix/ files --- the others were
> already canonical.
>
> Potentially contentious, so worth stating explicitly, is that there
> were 8 matches for "COMMAND..." amongst all existing help output,
> with 7 matches for various inconsistent variants involving something
> with "ARG", so I resolved that in favor of using "COMMAND..." (which
> is also shorter overall, and avoids nested []s).
> ---
> toys/posix/cal.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/cat.c | 4 ++--
> toys/posix/chgrp.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/cksum.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/df.c | 2 +-
Hmmm, that one isn't exactly a file though? (It can be a file, but is usually a
directory.)
> toys/posix/du.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/echo.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/env.c | 2 +-
Eh... grumble grumble. Not _wrong_ exactly...
> toys/posix/file.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/head.c | 2 +-
arg vs args isn't worse, but abbreviating "number" to "num" seems harder on
non-english speakers? (Google translate isn't going to know what "num" means.)
> toys/posix/kill.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/logger.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/ls.c | 2 +-
In this case it often _is_ a file, so...
> toys/posix/mkdir.c | 2 +-
I suppose it's the DOS command, and "dirname" already wasn't easy on translation. :)
> toys/posix/nice.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/nohup.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/patch.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/renice.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/rmdir.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/tar.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/tee.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/time.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/uniq.c | 2 +-
> toys/posix/uuencode.c | 4 ++--
> 24 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
Sigh. Applied.
Rob
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