Earlier, I patched various pages to consistently use EXAMPLE as a
section heading, rather than EXAMPLES. (At that time, both headings
occurred in util-linux, with roughly equal frequency.)
Since then, I've observed that EXAMPLES is the more common usage
across a large corpus of manual pages. So, in Linux the man-pages
project, I switched to using EXAMPLES also. This patch makes the same
change for util-linux.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.
Currently we have EXAMPLE (10) or EXAMPLES (23).
Let's standardize on the EXAMPLE (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)) and used consistently across
a large number of pages in the Linux man-pages project.
(I realize the choice to go EXAMPLE, rather than EXAMPLES,
may be debatable. If necessary, I'd write a patch that instead
goes the other way, but I'd prefer to follow man-pages(7).)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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>
Transform some of them into copyright lines.
Also fix three header lines and snip some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
As per the convention shown in Documentation/howto-man-page.txt.
Also make a few other tiny adjustments along the way.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Samanta Navarro
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Ruediger Meier
Sami Kerola
Karel Zak
Philip Prindeville
Sébastien Helleu
Benno Schulenberg
Peter Breitenlohner