[PATCH] man4/*: ffix, change '-' to '\-' for options

[PATCH] man4/*: ffix, change '-' to '\-' for options

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

  Change '-' to '\-' for the prefix of names to indicate an option.

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
---
 man4/cciss.4 | 4 ++--
 man4/loop.4  | 2 +-
 man4/veth.4  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man4/cciss.4 b/man4/cciss.4
index 9600c8f6f..d5732f168 100644
--- a/man4/cciss.4
+++ b/man4/cciss.4
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ For example:
 .in +4n
 .EX
 $ \fBcd /proc/driver/cciss\fP
-$ \fBls -l\fP
+$ \fBls \-l\fP
 total 0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010\-09\-10 10:38 cciss0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010\-09\-10 10:38 cciss1
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ successfully reset or the tardy command is successfully aborted, the
 tape drive may still not allow I/O to continue until some command
 is issued that positions the tape to a known position.
 Typically you must rewind the tape (by issuing
-.I "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind"
+.I "mt \-f /dev/st0 rewind"
 for example) before I/O can proceed again to a tape drive that was reset.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR hpsa (4),
diff --git a/man4/loop.4 b/man4/loop.4
index 1623cad0e..41e13d16f 100644
--- a/man4/loop.4
+++ b/man4/loop.4
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ You could do
 .EX
 $ \fBdd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1MiB count=10\fP
 $ \fBsudo losetup /dev/loop4 file.img\fP
-$ \fBsudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/loop4\fP
+$ \fBsudo mkfs \-t ext4 /dev/loop4\fP
 $ \fBsudo mkdir /myloopdev\fP
 $ \fBsudo mount /dev/loop4 /myloopdev\fP
 .EE
diff --git a/man4/veth.4 b/man4/veth.4
index e5d11b2b6..1fdc7822e 100644
--- a/man4/veth.4
+++ b/man4/veth.4
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ network interface, using commands something like:
 .in +4n
 .EX
 # \fBip link add ve_A type veth peer name ve_B\fP   # Create veth pair
-# \fBethtool -S ve_A\fP         # Discover interface index of peer
+# \fBethtool \-S ve_A\fP         # Discover interface index of peer
 NIC statistics:
      peer_ifindex: 16
 # \fBip link | grep '^16:'\fP   # Look up interface
-- 
2.27.0

Re: [PATCH] man4/*: ffix, change '-' to '\-' for options

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 7/2/20 1:01 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   Change '-' to '\-' for the prefix of names to indicate an option.

Thanks! Patch applied,

Cheers,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
> ---
>  man4/cciss.4 | 4 ++--
>  man4/loop.4  | 2 +-
>  man4/veth.4  | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man4/cciss.4 b/man4/cciss.4
> index 9600c8f6f..d5732f168 100644
> --- a/man4/cciss.4
> +++ b/man4/cciss.4
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ For example:
>  .in +4n
>  .EX
>  $ \fBcd /proc/driver/cciss\fP
> -$ \fBls -l\fP
> +$ \fBls \-l\fP
>  total 0
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010\-09\-10 10:38 cciss0
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010\-09\-10 10:38 cciss1
> @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ successfully reset or the tardy command is successfully aborted, the
>  tape drive may still not allow I/O to continue until some command
>  is issued that positions the tape to a known position.
>  Typically you must rewind the tape (by issuing
> -.I "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind"
> +.I "mt \-f /dev/st0 rewind"
>  for example) before I/O can proceed again to a tape drive that was reset.
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR hpsa (4),
> diff --git a/man4/loop.4 b/man4/loop.4
> index 1623cad0e..41e13d16f 100644
> --- a/man4/loop.4
> +++ b/man4/loop.4
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ You could do
>  .EX
>  $ \fBdd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1MiB count=10\fP
>  $ \fBsudo losetup /dev/loop4 file.img\fP
> -$ \fBsudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/loop4\fP
> +$ \fBsudo mkfs \-t ext4 /dev/loop4\fP
>  $ \fBsudo mkdir /myloopdev\fP
>  $ \fBsudo mount /dev/loop4 /myloopdev\fP
>  .EE
> diff --git a/man4/veth.4 b/man4/veth.4
> index e5d11b2b6..1fdc7822e 100644
> --- a/man4/veth.4
> +++ b/man4/veth.4
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ network interface, using commands something like:
>  .in +4n
>  .EX
>  # \fBip link add ve_A type veth peer name ve_B\fP   # Create veth pair
> -# \fBethtool -S ve_A\fP         # Discover interface index of peer
> +# \fBethtool \-S ve_A\fP         # Discover interface index of peer
>  NIC statistics:
>       peer_ifindex: 16
>  # \fBip link | grep '^16:'\fP   # Look up interface
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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