Some of the man pages had mentioned that arguments should be

double-quoted to protect them from the shell.  Removed "double-"
because single quoting is fine, too.

diff --git a/man/ap.man b/man/ap.man
index c77b39ede574cb0f79bf2eb564c9a01875045737..03636397b1c935332629d8f2f9ca770c3e17a94a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ap.man
+++ b/man/ap.man
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The
 .B ap
 program treats each argument as one or more addresses, and
 prints those addresses out in the official 822\-format.  Hence, it is
-usually best to enclose each argument in double\-quotes for the shell.
+usually best to enclose each argument in quotes for the shell.
 .PP
 To override the output format used by
 .BR ap ,
@@ -111,4 +111,4 @@ switch must be interpreted as a single token
 by the shell that invokes
 .BR ap .
 Therefore,
-one must usually place the argument to this switch inside double\-quotes.
+one must usually place the argument to this switch inside quotes.

diff --git a/man/dp.man b/man/dp.man
index 363f44a5cc37dfbf976eeb39cecca84f603e8d3c..6eeae1229f2f8f0a34f8d77f1a4a098b65874370 100644 (file)
--- a/man/dp.man
+++ b/man/dp.man
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The
 .B dp
 program treats each argument as a single date,
 and prints the date out in the official 822\-format.
-Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in double\-quotes for the
+Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in quotes for the
 shell.
 .PP
 To override the output format used by
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ The argument to the
 .B \-format
 switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes
 .BR dp .
-Therefore, one must usually place the argument to this switch inside double\-quotes.
+Therefore, one must usually place the argument to this switch inside quotes.

diff --git a/man/inc.man b/man/inc.man
index b9c34f9557155c3506808077e785b5b7f30ffc04..35a14808c3c9a06fa2118ee80e5d4ab772caf8af 100644 (file)
--- a/man/inc.man
+++ b/man/inc.man
@@ -337,4 +337,4 @@ switch must be interpreted as a single
 token by the shell that invokes
 .BR inc .
 Therefore, one must usually place the argument to this switch inside
-double\-quotes.
+quotes.

diff --git a/man/pick.man b/man/pick.man
index 1a1b0ff3f44bc0b0370c5e5e455bc37cd967f717..33462256a8acdc90b37fb385b34c81c846f3265d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/pick.man
+++ b/man/pick.man
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ switches must be interpreted
 as a single token by the shell that invokes
 .BR pick .
 Therefore, one
-must usually place the argument to this switch inside double\-quotes.
+must usually place the argument to this switch inside quotes.
 Furthermore, any occurrence of
 .B \-datefield
 must occur prior to the

diff --git a/man/scan.man b/man/scan.man
index fb72ac3d13cc1cc4663401321d62cdb0c5e6bdd8..d9d527141c0661a7f37bcf42b761a6bed3be85ab 100644 (file)
--- a/man/scan.man
+++ b/man/scan.man
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ switch must be interpreted as a single
 token by the shell that invokes
 .BR scan .
 Therefore, one must usually
-place the argument to this switch inside double\-quotes.
+place the argument to this switch inside quotes.
 .PP
 The value of each
 .I component

diff --git a/man/whatnow.man b/man/whatnow.man
index 4fca2cd2cd6f13844b6a6cdb649d9ca2ba4576f6..749e548baf37511e466f17f69ea494f5cb8045b2 100644 (file)
--- a/man/whatnow.man
+++ b/man/whatnow.man
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ switch must be interpreted as a single
 token by the shell that invokes
 .BR whatnow .
 Therefore, one must
-usually place the argument to this switch inside double\-quotes.
+usually place the argument to this switch inside quotes.
 .PP
 If the initial edit fails,
 .B whatnow