[PATCH 10/11] aiaiai-concat-mboxes: improve the help text

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 07:28:23 PST 2014


From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>

Explain why this script is needed and why one can't just use "cat".

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
---
 aiaiai-concat-mboxes | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/aiaiai-concat-mboxes b/aiaiai-concat-mboxes
index 350d986..8de22eb 100755
--- a/aiaiai-concat-mboxes
+++ b/aiaiai-concat-mboxes
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Usage: $PROG <mbox_files>
 
 This is a simple script which concatenates several mbox files into one. The
 resulting mbox is printed to stdout.
+
+Note, using just "cat" to contatenate the files is not going to produce a
+correct mbox because there won't be the required blank line between the e-mails
+in the resulting mbox.
 EOF
 }
 
-- 
1.8.5.2




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