Changeset 2c094d6 for appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml

Timestamp:

09/28/2002 09:08:29 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Timothy Bauscher <timothy@…>

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Children:

4d46e012

Parents:

f5cc1c17

Message:

Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml

@@ -16 +16 @@
 <sect4><title>chmod</title>
 <para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which 
-can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal 
+can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make or an octal 
 number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -39 +39 @@
 <para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats. 
 These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents 
-are sorted alphabetically.  For ls, files are by default listed in columns, 
-sorted  vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they 
-are listed one per  line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns,
-sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in 
+are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are, by default, listed in columns 
+sorted vertically if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they 
+are listed one per line. For dir, files are, by default, listed in columns
+sorted vertically. For vdir, files are, by default, listed in 
 long format.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>dircolors</title>
-<para>dircolors  outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
+<para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
 The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
 ls and related utilities.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>du</title>
-<para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each 
-subdirectory of directory arguments.</para></sect4>
+<para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each file or directory
+listed on the command-line and by each of their subdirectories.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>install</title>