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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-03-19 08:37:35 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-03-19 08:37:35 +0000
commit76c44d83f3b08f1b304e804584df01109474de4b (patch)
tree5649b867d3aaaecfc263556763b9475582a7d4ae /man7
parente7b489f0b90b5389ba9b2b48b95f860280f83f13 (diff)
s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively.
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/boot.72
-rw-r--r--man7/bootparam.72
-rw-r--r--man7/mdoc.74
-rw-r--r--man7/mdoc.samples.710
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7
index ddc628a5..72d6acdb 100644
--- a/man7/boot.7
+++ b/man7/boot.7
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ However, on many versions of Linux, there are tools to help with this task
(e.g:
.BR chkconfig (8)).
.SS "Boot Configuration"
-Usually the daemons started may optionally receive command line options
+Usually the daemons started may optionally receive command-line options
and parameters.
To allow system administrators to change these
parameters without editing the boot scripts themselves,
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 62ee5acd..3915ff42 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.SH NAME
bootparam \- Introduction to boot time parameters of the Linux kernel
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The Linux kernel accepts certain 'command line options' or 'boot time
+The Linux kernel accepts certain 'command-line options' or 'boot time
parameters' at the moment it is started.
In general this is used to
supply the kernel with information about hardware parameters that
diff --git a/man7/mdoc.7 b/man7/mdoc.7
index 57b56e2a..76d24576 100644
--- a/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ Produces
.It Em Name Parsed Callable Description
.It Li \&Ad Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Address. (This macro may be deprecated.)"
.It Li \&An Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Author name."
-.It Li \&Ar Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Command line argument."
+.It Li \&Ar Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Command-line argument."
.It Li \&Cd Ta \&No Ta \&No Ta "Configuration declaration (section four only)."
-.It Li \&Cm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Command line argument modifier."
+.It Li \&Cm Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Command-line argument modifier."
.It Li \&Dv Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Defined variable (source code)."
.It Li \&Er Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Error number (source code)."
.It Li \&Ev Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Environment variable."
diff --git a/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index d2780886..cf4521cc 100644
--- a/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ and related
.Bx
files.
Macros in the manual domain handle
-command names, command line arguments and options, function names,
+command names, command-line arguments and options, function names,
function parameters, pathnames, variables, cross
references to other manual pages, and so on.
These domain
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ from the example above might be referred to as
.Em operands
or
.Em file arguments .
-Some command line argument lists are quite long:
+Some command-line argument lists are quite long:
.Bl -tag -width make -offset indent
.It Nm make
.Op Fl eiknqrstv
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ any arguments.
The
.Ql \&.Ar
argument macro may be used whenever
-a command line argument is referenced.
+a command-line argument is referenced.
.Pp
.Dl Usage: .Ar argument ... \*(Pu
.Bl -tag -width ".Ar file1 file2" -compact -offset 15n
@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ next function.
.Ss Flags
The
.Ql \&.Fl
-macro handles command line flags.
+macro handles command-line flags.
It prepends
a dash,
.Ql \- ,
@@ -2158,7 +2158,7 @@ The only option that
accepts is
.Fl words
and is useful for preventing line breaks in the middle of options.
-In the example for the make command line arguments (see
+In the example for the make command-line arguments (see
.Sx What's in a name ) ,
the keep prevented
.Xr nroff