There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
In the Linux man-pages project, I long ago did away with the
AUTHOR(S) section, but I realize some projects like to keep this.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have AUTHOR (47) or AUTHORS (41).
Let's standardize on the latter (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Using double quotes in .SH lines containing multiple words is unneeded,
and in any case is not consistently done in the util-linux manual pages,
where double quotes are used in only around half of the cases.
(This usage was long ago elminated in the man-pages project, with
no ill effects reported to date.)
Remove these quotes, so that .SH lines are more uniform, in preparation
for some (more easily) scripted doiscovery of consistency problems in
(and possibly global fixes to) the manual pages.
Other than stripping the double quotes, this patch makes no changes to
the content of the manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Change a HYPHEN-MINUS (code 0x55, 2D) to a minus (\-), if in front of
1) a name of an option
2) a negative number to be printed.
See man-pages(7) [Debian package "manpages"].
The output from "nroff" is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
From
The only binary version of the utmp(5) is standardised.
To
Only the binary version of the utmp(5) is standardised.
Change-Id: I0033f6cf055d569c7dfca5e05e918f735ea72582
Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.com.br>
Tell that the old textual format that does not use full utmp time precision,
and has issues with timezones. Warn also that the textual format may become
incompatible, although there are no plans in foreseeable future to do so.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Carlos Santos
Sébastien Helleu
Sami Kerola
Benno Schulenberg
Ondrej Oprala
Bernhard Voelker
Karel Zak