summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/sys/src/cmd/dict
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorOri Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>2020-03-10 10:09:34 -0700
committerOri Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>2020-03-10 10:09:34 -0700
commit5bc9b0c3cac34864d479c099283793ec4ae5565e (patch)
tree943d06d59dfd6c13cc0a724a3118d5099b264884 /sys/src/cmd/dict
parent06ea44c895a5f97b7b9b65fce84dec2700f443fb (diff)
improve usage messages (thanks henesy)
Fix inconsistencies between programs and their usage messages, correct instances where information seems to be missing or lost. This includes missing arguments, making usage consistent with manuals, and so on.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/src/cmd/dict')
-rw-r--r--sys/src/cmd/dict/canonind.awk4
-rw-r--r--sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/dict/canonind.awk b/sys/src/cmd/dict/canonind.awk
index 41c6ee75f..a10b0810a 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/dict/canonind.awk
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/dict/canonind.awk
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# turn output of mkindex into form needed by dict
BEGIN {
if(ARGC != 2) {
- print "Usage: awk -F' ' -f canonind.awk rawindex > index"
- exit 1
+ print "usage: awk -F' ' -f canonind.awk rawindex > index"
+ exit usage
}
file = ARGV[1]
ARGV[1] = ""
diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c b/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c
index d0d8494d9..c689004ef 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/dict/dict.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ usage(void)
int i;
char *a, *b;
- Bprint(bout, "Usage: %s [-d dict] [-k] [-c cmd] [word]\n", argv0);
+ Bprint(bout, "usage: %s [-k] [-d dict] [-c cmd] [pattern]\n", argv0);
Bprint(bout, "dictionaries (brackets mark dictionaries not present on this system):\n");
for(i = 0; dicts[i].name; i++){
a = b = "";