blkid: On the man page, show option arguments in the descriptions.

Also rephrase two sentences and add a comma or two.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/misc/blkid.8.in b/misc/blkid.8.in
index 408dbc9..9c42686 100644 (file)
--- a/misc/blkid.8.in
+++ b/misc/blkid.8.in
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 .\" Copyright 2000 Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
 .\"
 .\" This man page was created for blkid from e2fsprogs-1.25.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Based on uuidgen, Mon Sep 17 10:42:12 2000, Andreas Dilger
 .TH BLKID 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
 .SH NAME
 blkid \- command\-line utility to locate/print block device attributes
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-.B blkid 
+.B blkid
 [
 .B \-ghlLv
 ]
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The
 .B blkid
 program is the command-line interface to working with
 .BR libblkid (3)
-library.  It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem, swap) 
+library.  It can determine the type of content (e.g. filesystem, swap)
 a block device holds, and also attributes (tokens, NAME=value pairs)
 from the content metadata (e.g. LABEL or UUID fields).
 .PP
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or
 more devices.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.B \-c
+.BI \-c " cachefile"
 Read from
 .I cachefile
 instead of reading from the default cache file
 .IR /etc/blkid.tab .
 If you want to start with a clean cache (i.e. don't report devices previously
 scanned but not necessarily available at this time), specify
-.IR /dev/null.
+.IR /dev/null .
 .TP
 .B \-g
 Perform a garbage collection pass on the blkid cache to remove
@@ -69,30 +69,29 @@ Display a usage message and exit.
 .TP
 .B \-l
 Look up one device that matches the search parameter specified using
-the 
+the
 .B \-t
 option.  If there are multiple devices that match the specified search
 parameter, then the device with the highest priority is returned, and/or
 the first device found at a given priority.  Device types in order of
 decreasing priority are Device Mapper, EVMS, LVM, MD, and finally regular
-block devices.  If this option is not specified, 
+block devices.  If this option is not specified,
 .B blkid
 will print all of the devices that match the search parameter.
 .TP
-.B \-o 
-Display 
+.BI \-o " format"
+Display
 .BR blkid 's
 output using the specified format.  The
 .I format
-parameter may be 
-.IR full ,
-(the default), 
-.IR  value ,
-(only print the value of any tags printed by 
-.BR blkid)
-.IR list ,
-(print the devices in a user friendly format)
-or 
+parameter may be
+.I full
+(the default),
+.I value
+(only print the value of the tags),
+.I list
+(print the devices in a user-friendly format),
+or
 .I device
 (only print the device name).
 .TP
@@ -100,21 +99,21 @@ or
 Print the devices in a user-friendly list format.  This is the
 equivalent of using the option \fB-o list\fR.
 .TP
-.B \-s
-Show only the tags for each (specified) device that match
+.BI \-s " tag"
+For each (specified) device, show only the tags that match
 .IR tag .
 It is possible to specify multiple
-.B \-s 
+.B \-s
 options.  If no tag is specified, then all tokens are shown for all
 (specified) devices.
-In order to just refresh the cache without showing any tokens use
+In order to just refresh the cache without showing any tokens, use
 .B "-s none"
 with no other options.
 .TP
-.B \-t
+.BI \-t " NAME" = "value"
 Search for block devices with tokens named
 .I NAME
-that have the value 
+that have the value
 .IR value ,
 and display any devices which are found.
 Common values for
@@ -124,14 +123,13 @@ include
 .BR LABEL ,
 and
 .BR UUID .
-If there are no devices specified on the command line, all block devices 
-will be searched; otherwise, only search the devices specified by the user.
+If there are no devices specified on the command line, all block devices
+will be searched; otherwise only the specified devices are searched.
 .TP
 .B \-v
 Display version number and exit.
 .TP
-.B \-w
-.I <writecachefile>
+.BI \-w " writecachefile"
 Write the device cache to
 .I writecachefile
 instead of writing it to the default cache file
@@ -142,18 +140,18 @@ If not specified it will be the same file as that given by the
 .B \-c
 option.
 .TP
-.I <device>
+.I device
 Display tokens from only the specified device.  It is possible to
 give multiple
-.I <device>
+.I device
 options on the command line.  If none is given, all devices which
 appear in
 .I /proc/partitions
 are shown, if they are recognized.
 .SH "RETURN CODE"
 If the specified token was found, or if any tags were shown from (specified)
-devices 0 is returned.  If the specified token was not found, or no
-(specified) devices could be identified, an exit code of 2 is returned.  
+devices, 0 is returned.  If the specified token was not found, or no
+(specified) devices could be identified, an exit code of 2 is returned.
 For usage or other errors, an exit code of 4 is returned.
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B blkid