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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:18:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Christian Weisgerber <naddy@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/110809: Man page typos: ommit -> omit
Message-ID:  <200703251418.l2PEI7or016712@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
Resent-Message-ID: <200703251640.l2PGe30V088538@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         110809
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Man page typos: ommit -> omit
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 25 16:40:03 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christian Weisgerber
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE alpha
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD kemoauc.mips.inka.de 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #0: Sat Jan 20 21:37:41 CET 2007 naddy@kemoauc.mips.inka.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC alpha

>Description:

There are some instances in the system man pages where "omit" is
misspelled "ommit".  Patchlet below.

There are are further instances in code comments and contrib parts;
I don't know what the policy is on fixing those.

>How-To-Repeat:

$ grep -r '\<ommit' /usr/src

>Fix:

Index: usr.bin/mail/mail.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/mail/mail.1,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.47 mail.1
--- usr.bin/mail/mail.1	5 Jan 2006 10:19:42 -0000	1.47
+++ usr.bin/mail/mail.1	25 Mar 2007 14:11:03 -0000
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@
 The string search is case insensitive.
 If
 .Ar x
-is ommitted, it will default to the
+is omitted, it will default to the
 .Dq Li Subject
 header field.
 The form
Index: usr.bin/nl/nl.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/nl/nl.1,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 nl.1
--- usr.bin/nl/nl.1	25 Jan 2005 22:32:48 -0000	1.16
+++ usr.bin/nl/nl.1	25 Mar 2007 14:11:03 -0000
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 .Ar file
 or the standard input if the
 .Ar file
-argument is ommitted,
+argument is omitted,
 applies a configurable line numbering filter operation and writes the result
 to the standard output.
 .Pp
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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