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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-01-08 14:08:03 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-01-09 21:50:08 +0100
commit9af0dced5a2eb167ec7b9dfe3f358f214e45d41a (patch)
treeb182495d17047e581cbee89db69d76d87173b0cc /src/timeout.c
parentmaint: adjust quoting: emit '...', not `...' in diagnostics (diff)
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maint: convert `...' to '...' in --help output
All affected lines end with \ or \n\, so run this command until it produces no new changes (4 times): git grep -E -l '`[^ ]+'\''.*\\' src \ |xargs perl -pi -e 's/`([^ ]+'\''.*\\)/'\''$1/'
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c
index ca8f0eb08..fb388d138 100644
--- a/src/timeout.c
+++ b/src/timeout.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
this long after the initial signal was sent.\n\
-s, --signal=SIGNAL\n\
specify the signal to be sent on timeout.\n\
- SIGNAL may be a name like `HUP' or a number.\n\
+ SIGNAL may be a name like 'HUP' or a number.\n\
See `kill -l` for a list of signals\n"), stdout);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
fputs (_("\n\
DURATION is a floating point number with an optional suffix:\n\
-`s' for seconds (the default), `m' for minutes, `h' for hours \
-or `d' for days.\n"), stdout);
+'s' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours \
+or 'd' for days.\n"), stdout);
fputs (_("\n\
If the command times out, then exit with status 124. Otherwise, exit\n\