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[PATCH] doc: make the tail --sleep-interval help less confusing


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: [PATCH] doc: make the tail --sleep-interval help less confusing
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:57:48 +0100
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008)

A trivial patch make tail --help less confusing to me at least

From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:50:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: make the tail --sleep-interval help less confusing

* src/tail.c (usage): I read "approximately S seconds"
as "approximately 5 seconds" for approximately 5 seconds.
---
 src/tail.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index f0dbf5d..2c59c3d 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short 
options too.\n\
                              name, i.e., with --follow=name\n\
 "), stdout);
      fputs (_("\
-  -s, --sleep-interval=S   with -f, sleep for approximately S seconds\n\
+  -s, --sleep-interval=N   with -f, sleep for approximately N seconds\n\
                              (default 1.0) between iterations\n\
   -v, --verbose            always output headers giving file names\n\
 "), stdout);
-- 




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