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patch 9.0.1706: typos in the xxd manpage

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Problem: typos in the xxd manpage
Solution: Fix typos and formatting

closes: #12645

Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: Matthias Braun <mb720@users.noreply.github.com>
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Matthias Braun
2023-08-13 19:20:35 +02:00
committed by Christian Brabandt
parent 96d6c4aabe
commit 02551c9de0
2 changed files with 37 additions and 34 deletions
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runtime/doc/xxd.1
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@@ -57,20 +57,20 @@ are all equivalent.
.PP
.TP
.IR \-a " | " \-autoskip
Toggle autoskip: A single '*' replaces nul-lines. Default off.
Toggle autoskip: A single '*' replaces NUL-lines. Default off.
.TP
.IR \-b " | " \-bits
Switch to bits (binary digits) dump, rather than hex dump.
This option writes octets as eight digits "1"s and "0"s instead of a normal
hexadecimal dump. Each line is preceded by a line number in hexadecimal and
followed by an ascii (or ebcdic) representation. The command line switches
followed by an ASCII (or EBCDIC) representation. The command line switches
\-r, \-p, \-i do not work with this mode.
.TP
.IR "\-c cols " | " \-cols cols"
Format
.RI < cols >
octets per line. Default 16 (\-i: 12, \-ps: 30, \-b: 6). Max 256.
No maxmimum for \-ps. With \-ps, 0 results in one long line of output.
No maximum for \-ps. With \-ps, 0 results in one long line of output.
.TP
.IR \-C " | " \-capitalize
Capitalize variable names in C include file style, when using \-i.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Switch to little-endian hexdump.
This option treats byte groups as words in little-endian byte order.
The default grouping of 4 bytes may be changed using
.RI "" \-g .
This option only applies to hexdump, leaving the ASCII (or EBCDIC)
This option only applies to the hex dump, leaving the ASCII (or EBCDIC)
representation unchanged.
The command line switches
\-r, \-p, \-i do not work with this mode.
@@ -93,13 +93,13 @@ The command line switches
.IR "\-g bytes " | " \-groupsize bytes"
Separate the output of every
.RI < bytes >
bytes (two hex characters or eight bit-digits each) by a whitespace.
bytes (two hex characters or eight bit digits each) by a whitespace.
Specify
.I \-g 0
to suppress grouping.
.RI < Bytes "> defaults to " 2
in normal mode, \fI4\fP in little-endian mode and \fI1\fP in bits mode.
Grouping does not apply to postscript or include style.
Grouping does not apply to PostScript or include style.
.TP
.IR \-h " | " \-help
Print a summary of available commands and exit. No hex dumping is performed.
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Add
to the displayed file position.
.TP
.IR \-p " | " \-ps " | " \-postscript " | " \-plain
Output in postscript continuous hexdump style. Also known as plain hexdump
Output in PostScript continuous hex dump style. Also known as plain hex dump
style.
.TP
.IR \-r " | " \-revert
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ If not writing to stdout, xxd writes into its output file without truncating
it. Use the combination
.I \-r \-p
to read plain hexadecimal dumps without line number information and without a
particular column layout. Additional Whitespace and line-breaks are allowed
particular column layout. Additional whitespace and line breaks are allowed
anywhere.
.TP
.I \-seek offset
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ should be that many characters from the end of the input (or if combined with
Without \-s option, xxd starts at the current file position.
.TP
.I \-u
Use upper case hex letters. Default is lower case.
Use upper-case hex letters. Default is lower-case.
.TP
.IR \-v " | " \-version
Show version string.
.SH CAVEATS
.PP
.I xxd \-r
has some builtin magic while evaluating line number information.
has some built-in magic while evaluating line number information.
If the output file is seekable, then the line numbers at the start of each
hex dump line may be out of order, lines may be missing, or overlapping. In
these cases xxd will lseek(2) to the next position. If the output file is not
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ never generates parse errors. Garbage is silently skipped.
When editing hex dumps, please note that
.I xxd \-r
skips everything on the input line after reading enough columns of hexadecimal
data (see option \-c). This also means, that changes to the printable ascii (or
ebcdic) columns are always ignored. Reverting a plain (or postscript) style
hexdump with xxd \-r \-p does not depend on the correct number of columns. Here anything that looks like a pair of hex-digits is interpreted.
data (see option \-c). This also means that changes to the printable ASCII (or
EBCDIC) columns are always ignored. Reverting a plain (or PostScript) style
hex dump with xxd \-r \-p does not depend on the correct number of columns. Here, anything that looks like a pair of hex digits is interpreted.
.PP
Note the difference between
.br
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ may be different from
as lseek(2) is used to "rewind" input. A '+'
makes a difference if the input source is stdin, and if stdin's file position
is not at the start of the file by the time xxd is started and given its input.
The following examples may help to clarify (or further confuse!)...
The following examples may help to clarify (or further confuse!):
.PP
Rewind stdin before reading; needed because the `cat' has already read to the
end of stdin.
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ the 1k where dd left off.
.br
\fI% sh \-c "dd of=plain_snippet bs=1k count=1; xxd \-s +128 > hex_snippet" < file\fR
.PP
Hexdump from file position 0x100 ( = 1024\-768) on.
Hex dump from file position 0x100 (=1024\-768) onwards.
.br
\fI% sh \-c "dd of=plain_snippet bs=1k count=1; xxd \-s +\-768 > hex_snippet" < file\fR
.PP
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Print 3 lines (hex 0x30 bytes) from the end of
\fI% xxd \-s \-0x30 file\fR
.PP
.br
Print 120 bytes as continuous hexdump with 20 octets per line.
Print 120 bytes as a continuous hex dump with 20 octets per line.
.br
\fI% xxd \-l 120 \-ps \-c 20 xxd.1\fR
.br
@@ -348,8 +348,9 @@ The following error values are returned:
no errors encountered.
.TP
\-1
operation not supported (
.I xxd \-r \-i
operation not supported
\%(\c
.I \%xxd \-r \-i
still impossible).
.TP
1
@@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ desired seek position is unreachable.
uuencode(1), uudecode(1), patch(1)
.br
.SH WARNINGS
The tools weirdness matches its creators brain.
The tool's weirdness matches its creator's brain.
Use entirely at your own risk. Copy files. Trace it. Become a wizard.
.br
.SH VERSION

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src/version.c
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@@ -695,6 +695,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
static int included_patches[] =
{ /* Add new patch number below this line */
/**/
1706,
/**/
1705,
/**/