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authorThomas Voss <mail@thomasvoss.com> 2024-02-02 17:01:11 +0100
committerThomas Voss <mail@thomasvoss.com> 2024-02-02 17:01:11 +0100
commit372d90c6758ea9351374b558fed7103879f9886d (patch)
tree27d6394f4eaf44c7e7b96a3dd7558ca53b9a5471 /man
parentc47e6b42946760428b743af0e9492cb145f6d9e5 (diff)
Reword some hard-to-read phrasesv2.2.3
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/grab.124
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/grab.1 b/man/grab.1
index d70014a..e8bcf31 100644
--- a/man/grab.1
+++ b/man/grab.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.Dd 26 January, 2024
+.Dd 2 February, 2024
.Dt GRAB 1
-.Os Grab 2.2.2
+.Os Grab 2.2.3
.Sh NAME
.Nm grab ,
.Nm "git grab"
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-utility searches for text in files corresponding to
+utility searches for text matching the given
.Ar pattern
-and prints the corresponding matches to the standard output.
+in the files listed on the command-line,
+printing the matches to the standard-output.
Unlike the
.Xr grep 1
utility,
@@ -42,12 +43,12 @@ The
.Nm "git grab"
utility is identical to the
.Nm
-utility in all ways except for two exceptions.
+utility in all ways bar two exceptions.
The first is that if no files
.Pq globs in this case to be precise
are specified,
-input is not read from the standard-input but instead all non-binary
-files found in the current git-repository are processed.
+input is not read from the standard-input but instead from all non-binary
+files in the current git-repository.
If the user provides one or more globs,
only the non-binary files in the current git-repository that match one or
more of the given globs will be processed.
@@ -58,18 +59,21 @@ its behavior is always assumed and cannot be disabled.
.Pp
.Nm
will read from the files provided on the command-line.
-If no files are provided, the standard input will be read instead.
+If no files are provided, the standard-input will be read instead.
The special filename
.Sq \-
can also be provided,
-which represents the standard input.
+which represents the standard-input.
.Pp
The default behavior of
.Nm
is to print pattern matches to the standard-output.
If more than one file argument is provided,
-matches will be prefixed by their respective filename and a colon.
+matches will be prefixed by their respective filename and the position of
+the match,
+colon-separated.
Note that this behavior is modified by the
+.Fl b ,
.Fl f
and
.Fl z