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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-09-25 22:57:32 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2007-09-25 22:57:32 +0000
commit7d9acd968f7a0537b258f23edaca2c85a0774b47 (patch)
tree61061475c4c61c589c131dcf3462ac76bedceafd /src
parent8ce7911f106bbfa97f8f23d033b3aa22c45c5665 (diff)
display whether an option takes an argument in the usage output
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/_usage.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/_usage.c b/src/_usage.c
index be41e313..141a15a0 100644
--- a/src/_usage.c
+++ b/src/_usage.c
@@ -9,15 +9,20 @@
static void usage (int exit_status)
{
+ const char * const has_arg[] = { "", "<arg>", "[arg]" };
int i;
printf ("Usage: " APPLET " [options] ");
#ifdef extraopts
printf (extraopts);
#endif
printf ("\n\nOptions: [" getoptstring "]\n");
- for (i = 0; longopts[i].name; ++i)
- printf (" -%c, --%-15s %s\n", longopts[i].val, longopts[i].name,
- longopts_help[i]);
+ for (i = 0; longopts[i].name; ++i) {
+ int len = printf (" -%c, --%s %s", longopts[i].val, longopts[i].name,
+ has_arg[longopts[i].has_arg]);
+ while (++len < 25)
+ printf (" ");
+ puts (longopts_help[i]);
+ }
exit (exit_status);
}