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authoreivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-02 14:56:55 +0000
committereivind <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-02 14:56:55 +0000
commiteac18e1b61921f00296eb85595f676b5410fadb8 (patch)
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parent040ae947ad12478255f12f72bfbf6dee22b0b036 (diff)
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Bring in use of strsep() to handle bad input better, and clean up
some text. Obtained from: Merge from OpenBSD (cut.1 up to OpenBSD rev 1.3, cut.c up to OpenBSD rev 1.6)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1 b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
index 80d36fa..fd1c92d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cut/cut.1
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ The items specified by
can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited
by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
.Pp
-.Ar List
+.Ar list
is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or
number ranges.
Number ranges consist of a number, a dash
-.Pq Li \- ,
+.Pq Sq \- ,
and a second number
and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second,
inclusive.
@@ -109,8 +109,9 @@ Suppresses lines with no field delimiter characters.
Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
.El
.Pp
-.Nm Cut
-exits 0 on success, 1 if an error occurred.
+The
+.Nm cut
+utility exits 0 on success or 1 if an error occurred.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr paste 1
.Sh STANDARDS
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