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Add missing option to manpage and remove duplicate operation

* doc/tar.1: Add needed option -f after operation -A, sort operation -t
  alphabetically, add --file after --concatenate, consistently use long
  option --file in the GNU-style section, and delete duplicate --update.
* doc/tar.texi: Add small missing word, and lowercase a letter.
Benno Schulenberg 1 year ago
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2 changed files with 9 additions and 11 deletions
  1. 7 9
      doc/tar.1
  2. 2 2
      doc/tar.texi

+ 7 - 9
doc/tar.1

@@ -22,22 +22,22 @@ tar \- an archiving utility
 [\fBGnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo\fR] [\fIARG\fR...]
 .SS UNIX-style usage
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR \fB\-A\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fIARCHIVE\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR
+\fBtar\fR \fB\-A\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-c\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-d\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR \fB\-t\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
-.sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-r\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
+\fBtar\fR \fB\-t\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
+.sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-u\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-x\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
 .SS GNU-style usage
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR {\fB\-\-catenate\fR|\fB\-\-concatenate\fR} [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fIARCHIVE\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR
+\fBtar\fR {\fB\-\-catenate\fR|\fB\-\-concatenate\fR} [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-\-create\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
@@ -45,17 +45,15 @@ tar \- an archiving utility
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-\-delete\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR \fB\-\-append\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
+\fBtar\fR \fB\-\-append\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR \fB\-\-list\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
+\fBtar\fR \fB\-\-list\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-\-test\-label\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fILABEL\fR...]
 .sp
 \fBtar\fR \fB\-\-update\fR [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
 .sp
-\fBtar\fR \fB\-\-update\fR [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIFILE\fR...]
-.sp
-\fBtar\fR {\fB\-\-extract\fR|\fB\-\-get\fR} [\fB\-f\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
+\fBtar\fR {\fB\-\-extract\fR|\fB\-\-get\fR} [\fB\-\-file\fR \fIARCHIVE\fR] [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIMEMBER\fR...]
 .SH NOTE
 This manpage is a short description of GNU \fBtar\fR.  For a detailed
 discussion, including examples and usage recommendations, refer to the

+ 2 - 2
doc/tar.texi

@@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@ tape!  @xref{delete}.
 @item --diff
 @itemx -d
 
-Same @option{--compare}.  @xref{compare}.
+Same as @option{--compare}.  @xref{compare}.
 
 @opsummary{extract}
 @item --extract
@@ -5402,7 +5402,7 @@ jazz
 @end smallexample
 
 @noindent
-If you like, You can run @samp{tar --list} to make sure the archives
+If you like, you can run @samp{tar --list} to make sure the archives
 contain what they are supposed to:
 
 @smallexample