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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 21:04:19 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 21:04:19 +0000
commitd40c857e0d3367205daa400d589a200a1776f876 (patch)
tree689771de43fefbd125bbf91e0e8eebf67141a5a2 /bin/ln
parentd27d6d8e3ad962ceaae81c1de97ea5cec29c444e (diff)
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ln')
-rw-r--r--bin/ln/ln.16
-rw-r--r--bin/ln/symlink.715
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/ln.1 b/bin/ln/ln.1
index f438744..3f504ac 100644
--- a/bin/ln/ln.1
+++ b/bin/ln/ln.1
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ If the
.Ar target_file
or
.Ar target_dir
-is a symbolic link, do not follow it. This is most useful with the
+is a symbolic link, do not follow it.
+This is most useful with the
.Fl f
option, to replace a symlink which may point to a directory.
.It Fl i
@@ -123,7 +124,8 @@ the file.
Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
.Pp
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to
-which it is linked. The referenced file is used when an
+which it is linked.
+The referenced file is used when an
.Xr open 2
operation is performed on the link.
A
diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7
index eb2cffb..f637d33 100644
--- a/bin/ln/symlink.7
+++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ file.
Hard links may not refer to directories and may not reference files
on different file systems.
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked,
-i.e. it is a pointer to another name, and not to an underlying object.
+i.e., it is a pointer to another name, and not to an underlying object.
For this reason, symbolic links may reference directories and may span
file systems.
.Pp
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ would display the contents of the file
.Dq Li afile .
.Pp
It is important to realize that this rule includes commands which may
-optionally traverse file trees, e.g. the command
+optionally traverse file trees, e.g.\& the command
.Dq Li "chown file"
is included in this rule, while the command
.Dq Li "chown -R file"
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ The
command is also an exception to this rule.
For compatibility with historic systems (when
.Nm ls
-is not doing a tree walk, i.e. the
+is not doing a tree walk, i.e., the
.Fl R
option is not specified),
the
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ or if the
.Fl d
or
.Fl l
-options are not specified. (The
+options are not specified.
+(The
.Nm ls
command is the only command where the
.Fl H
@@ -412,14 +413,16 @@ options.
To maintain compatibility with historic systems,
the
.Nm ls
-command acts a little differently. If you do not specify the
+command acts a little differently.
+If you do not specify the
.Fl F ,
.Fl d
or
.Fl l
options,
.Nm ls
-will follow symbolic links specified on the command line. If the
+will follow symbolic links specified on the command line.
+If the
.Fl L
flag is specified,
.Nm ls
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