misc/174787: man page for ln is missing a word

Cody Rank codyrank at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 22:00:01 UTC 2012


>Number:         174787
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       man page for ln is missing a word
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 28 22:00:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Cody Rank
>Release:        OS X
>Organization:
>Environment:
Darwin Codys-Mac-mini.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>Description:
The compatibility section of the man page for ln is missing the word "a":

"The -F option is FreeBSD extention and should not be used in portable scripts."
should be:
"The -F option is a FreeBSD extention and should not be used in portable scripts."
>How-To-Repeat:
"man ln", scroll to bottom
>Fix:
for bin/ln/ln.1:

--- ln.1.orig	2012-12-28 13:40:26.000000000 -0800
+++ ln.1	2012-12-28 13:40:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
 .Pp
 The
 .Fl F
-option is
+option is a
 .Fx
 extension and should not be used in portable scripts.
 .Sh SEE ALSO


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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