Subject: bug#31600: [PATCH] man: Some formatting fixes in "du.x" and "rm.x"

From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 00:10:11 +0000

Change ".BR" to ".B" if there is only one argument.

  Protect an end-of-sentence indicator (.?!) with '\&' if it does not
mean an end of a sentence.

  Change '--' to '\-\' if it indicates an option.

  Change '\=' to '='.

Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email-masked]>
---

  Details:

  Warnings from "groff".

  Output is from: test-groff -b -e -mandoc -T utf8 -rF0 -t -w w -z 

  [ "test-groff" is a developmental version of "groff" ]

<du.x>:12 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
<du.x>:14 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
<du.x>:17 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
<du.x>:25 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
<du.x>:27 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected

#

troff: <rm.x>:16: warning: escape character ignored before '='
troff: <rm.x>:25: warning: escape character ignored before '='

###

 man/du.x | 12 ++++++------
 man/rm.x |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/du.x b/man/du.x
index 43f66ffa2..cd68e40ea 100644
--- a/man/du.x
+++ b/man/du.x
@@ -9,20 +9,20 @@ du \- estimate file space usage
 .\" Add any additional description here
 [PATTERNS]
 PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression).  The pattern
-.BR ?
+.B ?\&
 matches any one character, whereas
-.BR *
+.B *
 matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters).  For
 example,
-.BR *.o
+.B *.o
 will match any files whose names end in
 .BR .o .
 Therefore, the command
 .IP
-.B du --exclude=\(aq*.o\(aq
+.B du \-\-exclude=\(aq*.o\(aq
 .PP
 will skip all files and subdirectories ending in
-.BR .o
+.B .o
 (including the file
-.BR .o
+.B .o
 itself).
diff --git a/man/rm.x b/man/rm.x
index 278eba009..3044a0914 100644
--- a/man/rm.x
+++ b/man/rm.x
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ documents the GNU version of
 removes each specified file.  By default, it does not remove
 directories.
 .P
-If the \fI\-I\fR or \fI\-\-interactive\=once\fR option is given,
+If the \fI\-I\fR or \fI\-\-interactive=once\fR option is given,
 and there are more than three files or the \fI\-r\fR, \fI\-R\fR,
 or \fI\-\-recursive\fR are given, then
 .B rm
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ the response is not affirmative, the entire command is aborted.
 .P
 Otherwise, if a file is unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and
 the \fI\-f\fR or \fI\-\-force\fR option is not given, or the
-\fI\-i\fR or \fI\-\-interactive\=always\fR option is given,
+\fI\-i\fR or \fI\-\-interactive=always\fR option is given,
 .B rm
 prompts the user for whether to remove the file.  If the response is
 not affirmative, the file is skipped.
-- 
2.17.0

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason