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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-09 19:27:40 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2010-09-09 19:27:40 +0000
commit4b2f91532164095cf83202b30824896be0adf41a (patch)
tree7e9d340877c8dbcd54851bb1b78cd4207d749021 /usr.bin/printf/printf.1
parentea22f625a73ebfc68c847571ee82e4aa7d8b4641 (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
index f0fc00b63ca8..6caea65c6df2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
+++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
@@ -355,3 +355,10 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only
a problem if
.Ql %
can appear inside a multibyte character).
+.Pp
+Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes
+.Nm
+to interpet the dash as a program argument.
+.Nm --
+must be used before
+.Ar format .