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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000
commitd73dc5b07390fb90e7f605871c993a28eedf1d46 (patch)
tree3e448e6550da52d2709e5f52fbae56e9df9462cc /findutils
parent84d85680712573c7a8bd7d0491c3f944dc08ad10 (diff)
Updates to usage, and made tar work.
-Erik
Diffstat (limited to 'findutils')
-rw-r--r--findutils/find.c15
-rw-r--r--findutils/grep.c7
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/findutils/find.c b/findutils/find.c
index ab9ebf434..0f1f5f189 100644
--- a/findutils/find.c
+++ b/findutils/find.c
@@ -32,9 +32,18 @@ static char* pattern=NULL;
static char* directory=".";
static int dereferenceFlag=FALSE;
-static const char find_usage[] = "find [path...] [expression]\n"
-"default path is the current directory; default expression is -print\n"
-"expression may consist of:\n";
+static const char find_usage[] = "find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]\n\n"
+"Search for files in a directory hierarchy. The default PATH is\n"
+"the current directory; default EXPRESSION is '-print'\n\n"
+"\nEXPRESSION may consist of:\n"
+"\t-follow\n\t\tDereference symbolic links.\n"
+"\t-name PATTERN\n\t\tFile name (with leading directories removed) matches PATTERN.\n"
+"\t-print\n\t\tprint the full file name followed by a newline to stdout.\n\n"
+#if defined BB_REGEXP
+"This version of find matches full regular expresions.\n";
+#else
+"This version of find matches strings (not regular expresions).\n";
+#endif
diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index 8dcff0586..84bb99667 100644
--- a/findutils/grep.c
+++ b/findutils/grep.c
@@ -32,15 +32,16 @@
#include <ctype.h>
static const char grep_usage[] =
-"grep [-ihn]... PATTERN [FILE]...\n"
+"grep [OPTIONS]... PATTERN [FILE]...\n\n"
"Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input.\n\n"
+"OPTIONS:\n"
"\t-h\tsuppress the prefixing filename on output\n"
"\t-i\tignore case distinctions\n"
"\t-n\tprint line number with output lines\n\n"
#if defined BB_REGEXP
-"This version of grep matches full regexps.\n";
+"This version of grep matches full regular expresions.\n";
#else
-"This version of grep matches strings (not regexps).\n";
+"This version of grep matches strings (not regular expresions).\n";
#endif