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rtmon: Align usage with ip help

Message ID 20240513185217.13925-1-yedaya.ka@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 3cd62286ac727456f37aea380441ce8bf7170c17
Delegated to: Stephen Hemminger
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Series rtmon: Align usage with ip help | expand

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Commit Message

Yedaya Katsman May 13, 2024, 6:52 p.m. UTC
Also update the man page accordingly, and add ip-monitor to see also

Signed-off-by: Yedaya Katsman <yedaya.ka@gmail.com>
---
 ip/rtmon.c       |  4 ++--
 man/man8/rtmon.8 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org May 14, 2024, 5:30 a.m. UTC | #1
Hello:

This patch was applied to iproute2/iproute2.git (main)
by Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>:

On Mon, 13 May 2024 21:52:17 +0300 you wrote:
> Also update the man page accordingly, and add ip-monitor to see also
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yedaya Katsman <yedaya.ka@gmail.com>
> ---
>  ip/rtmon.c       |  4 ++--
>  man/man8/rtmon.8 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Here is the summary with links:
  - rtmon: Align usage with ip help
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=3cd62286ac72

You are awesome, thank you!
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diff --git a/ip/rtmon.c b/ip/rtmon.c
index 08105d686c08..470f4ba641dc 100644
--- a/ip/rtmon.c
+++ b/ip/rtmon.c
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@  static int dump_msg2(struct nlmsghdr *n, void *arg)
 static void usage(void)
 {
 	fprintf(stderr,
-		"Usage: rtmon [ OPTIONS ] file FILE [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ]\n"
+		"Usage: rtmon [ OPTIONS ] file FILE [ all | OBJECTS ]\n"
 		"OPTIONS := { -f[amily] { inet | inet6 | link | help } |\n"
 		"             -4 | -6 | -0 | -V[ersion] }\n"
-		"LISTofOBJECTS := [ link ] [ address ] [ route ]\n");
+		"OBJECTS := [ link ] [ address ] [ route ]\n");
 	exit(-1);
 }
 
diff --git a/man/man8/rtmon.8 b/man/man8/rtmon.8
index 38a2b77470e6..f3b9f774413f 100644
--- a/man/man8/rtmon.8
+++ b/man/man8/rtmon.8
@@ -1,9 +1,27 @@ 
 .TH RTMON 8
-.SH NAME
+.SH "NAME"
 rtmon \- listens to and monitors RTnetlink
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B rtmon
-.RI "[ options ] file FILE [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ]"
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.sp
+.ad l
+.in +8
+.ti -8
+.B "rtmon"
+.RI "[ " OPTIONS " ] "
+.BI "file " FILE
+.BR "[ " all
+.RI "| " OBJECTS
+.RB "]"
+
+.ti -8
+.IR OPTIONS
+.RI ":= { f[amily] { inet | inet6 | link | help } |"
+.RI "-4 | -6 | -0 | -V[ersion] }"
+
+.ti -8
+.I OBJECTS
+.B ":= [" link "]" "[" address "]" "[" route "]"
+
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This manual page documents briefly the
 .B rtmon
@@ -32,8 +50,8 @@  Print version and exit.
 .B help
 Show summary of options.
 .TP
-.B file FILE [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ]
-Log output to FILE. LISTofOBJECTS is the list of object types that we
+.B file FILE [ all | OBJECTS ]
+Log output to FILE. OBJECTS is the list of object types that we
 want to monitor. It may contain 'link', 'address', 'route'
 and 'all'. 'link' specifies the network device, 'address' the protocol
 (IP or IPv6) address on a device, 'route' the routing table entry
@@ -60,6 +78,7 @@  Log to file /var/log/rtmon.log, then run:
 to display logged output from file.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ip (8)
+.BR ip-monitor (8)
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B rtmon
 was written by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>.