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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-02-05 17:03:19 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-02-05 17:03:21 +0100
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Many pages: Use \[aq] instead of \(aq
This improves readability in the source code, since it delimits where the escape sequence ends. Cc: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> Cc: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man3/basename.3 b/man3/basename.3
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@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ break a null-terminated pathname string into directory
and filename components.
In the usual case,
.BR dirname ()
-returns the string up to, but not including, the final \(aq/\(aq, and
+returns the string up to, but not including, the final \[aq]/\[aq], and
.BR basename ()
-returns the component following the final \(aq/\(aq.
-Trailing \(aq/\(aq characters are not counted as part of the pathname.
+returns the component following the final \[aq]/\[aq].
+Trailing \[aq]/\[aq] characters are not counted as part of the pathname.
.PP
If
.I path
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ such as "/usr/".
.PP
Before glibc 2.2.1, the glibc version of
.BR dirname ()
-did not correctly handle pathnames with trailing \(aq/\(aq characters,
+did not correctly handle pathnames with trailing \[aq]/\[aq] characters,
and generated a segfault if given a NULL argument.
.SH EXAMPLES
The following code snippet demonstrates the use of