Merge tag 'android-7.1.2_r39' into nougat-x86

[android-x86/external-e2fsprogs.git] / misc / logsave.8.in

diff --git a/misc/logsave.8.in b/misc/logsave.8.in
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--- a/misc/logsave.8.in
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@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ logsave \- save the output of a command in a logfile
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B logsave
 [
-.B \-v
+.B \-asv
 ]
-.I logfile command [ ... ]
+.I logfile cmd_prog [ ... ]
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .B logsave
 program will execute
-.I command 
-with the specified argument, and save a copy of its output to
+.I cmd_prog 
+with the specified argument(s), and save a copy of its output to
 .IR logfile .
 If the containing directory for
 .I logfile
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ will accumulate the output in memory until it can be written out.
 A copy of the output will also be written to standard output.
 .PP
 If 
-.I command
+.I cmd_prog
 is a single hyphen ('-'), then instead of executing a program,
 .B logsave
-will take the input from standard input.
+will take its input from standard input and save it in
+.I logfile
 .PP
 .B logsave
 is useful for saving the output of initial boot scripts 
@@ -40,12 +41,20 @@ until the /var partition is mounted, so the output can be written to
 .B \-a
 This option will cause the output to be appended to 
 .IR logfile ,
-instead of replacing the current contents.
+instead of replacing its current contents.
+.TP
+.B \-s
+This option will cause 
+.B logsave
+to skip writing to the log file text which is bracketed with a control-A 
+(ASCII 001 or Start of Header) and control-B (ASCII 002 or Start of
+Text).  This allows progress bar information to be visible to the user
+on the console, while not being written to the log file.
 .TP
 .B \-v
-This option will
+This option will make
 .B logsave
-more verbose.
+to be more verbose in its output to the user.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
 .SH SEE ALSO