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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-27 21:06:53 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-27 21:06:53 +0000
commit8f5f49447d2acbd16166776375976294d0451f06 (patch)
treefb1f0d3bf1a53b98c67d44c6ab16dcc4244bee5f /usr.bin/make
parent12613c1ae5807acb9b8199cdbfae497e7601c1d6 (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index 5ba578bc15fd..4e435384b1ad 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ These directories will be searched for source files by
.Nm
after it has finished parsing all input makefiles.
.El
-.Ss Variable modifiers
+.Ss Variable Modifiers
Variable expansion may be modified to select or modify each word of the
variable (where a
.Dq word
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ The colon may be escaped with a backslash
.Pq Ql \e .
.Bl -tag -width Cm
.Sm off
-.It Cm \&:C No / Ar pattern Xo
+.It Cm :C No / Ar pattern Xo
.No / Ar replacement
.No / Op Cm 1g
.Xc
@@ -896,13 +896,13 @@ and
are orthogonal; the former specifies whether multiple words are
potentially affected, the latter whether multiple substitutions can
potentially occur within each affected word.
-.It Cm \&:E
+.It Cm :E
Replaces each word in the variable with its suffix.
-.It Cm \&:H
+.It Cm :H
Replaces each word in the variable with everything but the last component.
-.It Cm \&:L
+.It Cm :L
Converts variable to lower-case letters.
-.It Cm \&:M Ns Ar pattern
+.It Cm :M Ns Ar pattern
Select only those words that match the rest of the modifier.
The standard shell wildcard characters
.Pf ( Ql * ,
@@ -913,21 +913,21 @@ may
be used.
The wildcard characters may be escaped with a backslash
.Pq Ql \e .
-.It Cm \&:N Ns Ar pattern
+.It Cm :N Ns Ar pattern
This is identical to
-.Cm \&:M ,
+.Cm :M ,
but selects all words which do not match
the rest of the modifier.
-.It Cm \&:O
+.It Cm :O
Order every word in the variable alphabetically.
-.It Cm \&:Q
+.It Cm :Q
Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be passed
safely through recursive invocations of
.Nm .
-.It Cm \&:R
+.It Cm :R
Replaces each word in the variable with everything but its suffix.
.Sm off
-.It Cm \&:S No / Ar old_string Xo
+.It Cm :S No / Ar old_string Xo
.No / Ar new_string
.No / Op Cm g
.Xc
@@ -991,11 +991,11 @@ is the substring of
.Ar old_string
to be replaced in
.Ar new_string
-.It Cm \&:T
+.It Cm :T
Replaces each word in the variable with its last component.
-.It Cm \&:U
+.It Cm :U
Converts variable to upper-case letters.
-.It Cm \&:u
+.It Cm :u
Remove adjacent duplicate words (like
.Xr uniq 1 ) .
.El