Module Name: src
Committed By: apb
Date: Fri Oct 25 22:05:00 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/make: make.1
Log Message:
Explain that ${VAR:M*} will normalise the inter-word spacing.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.223 -r1.224 src/usr.bin/make/make.1
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Modified files:
Index: src/usr.bin/make/make.1
diff -u src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.223 src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.224
--- src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.223 Fri Oct 25 20:57:02 2013
+++ src/usr.bin/make/make.1 Fri Oct 25 22:05:00 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.223 2013/10/25 20:57:02 apb Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.224 2013/10/25 22:05:00 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -1066,6 +1066,13 @@ may
be used.
The wildcard characters may be escaped with a backslash
.Pq Ql \e .
+As a consequence of the way values are split into words, matched,
+and then joined, a construct like
+.Dl ${VAR:M*}
+will normalise the inter-word spacing, removing all leading and
+trailing space, and converting multiple consecutive spaces
+to single spaces.
+.
.It Cm \&:N Ns Ar pattern
This is identical to
.Ql Cm \&:M ,
