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--- Begin Message ---IMHO he's got a point, the attached patch seems much clearer despite the complexity of nested bracketed expressions. ----- Forwarded message from Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:28:38 +0000 To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#400618: grepmail: Clarify and fix synopsis in man page Reply-To: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: reportbug 3.31 Package: grepmail Version: 5.3032-2 Severity: minor The man page synopsis would be clearer if the three lines were made into one (because otherwise the reader has to scan them in detail to check that the non-changing majority of the line is indeed non-changing). The bit that appears on the third line would then read: [[-e] <pattern>|-E <expr>|-f <pattern-file>] <files...> Note this is also a fix since the flags are actually optional (because instead of one of the above, you can have -d, -s or -u). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages grepmail depends on: ii libmail-mbox-messageparser-pe 1.4005-1 fast and simple mbox folder reader ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-5 Time and date functions for Perl ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base [libscalar-list-uti 5.8.8-6.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis grepmail recommends no packages. -- no debconf information ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy joIndex: grepmail =================================================================== --- grepmail (revision 12887) +++ grepmail (working copy) @@ -2149,18 +2149,8 @@ grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - [-e] <pattern> <files...> + [[-e] <pattern>|-E <expr>|-f <pattern-file>] <files...> - grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] - [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] - [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - -E <expr> <files...> - - grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] - [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] - [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - -f <pattern-file> <files...> - At least one of -s, -d, -u, -e, and -E must be specified, and can appear in any relative order following the other flags. The -e flag is optional if pattern appears immediately before -s or -d. Files can be plain ASCII or ASCII @@ -2227,18 +2217,8 @@ grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - [-e] <pattern> <files...> + [[-e] <pattern>|-E <expr>|-f <pattern-file>] <files...> - grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] - [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] - [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - -E <expr> <files...> - - grepmail [--help|--version] [-abBDFhHilmrRuvVw] [-C <cache-file>] - [-j <status>] [-s <sizespec>] [-d <date-specification>] - [-X <signature-pattern>] [-Y <header-pattern>] - -f <pattern-file> <files...> - =head1 DESCRIPTION =over 2
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