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authordd <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-29 00:17:17 +0000
committerdd <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-29 00:17:17 +0000
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Update the document date after DES's updates, move the description of
the -b option below -a to maintain alphabetical order, and add a missing ".It" before "Fl o".
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diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
index c5ca4b7..b0a98bc 100644
--- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
+++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)sysctl.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 23, 1994
+.Dd May 28, 2001
.Dt SYSCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Equivalent to
List all the currently available non-opaque values.
This option is ignored if one or more variable names are specified on
the command line.
+.It Fl b
+Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
+No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
+This is mostly useful with a single variable.
.It Fl N
Show only variable names, not their values.
This is particularly useful with shells that offer programmable
@@ -84,11 +88,7 @@ For instance, to save the pagesize in variable psize, use:
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize`
.Ed
-.It Fl b
-Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
-No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
-This is mostly useful with a single variable.
-.Fl o
+.It Fl o
Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed).
The format and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of the first
sixteen bytes of the value.
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