X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-cat.xml;h=16a8eb456c4134fa6558261499300ad647562b40;hb=48b5804a48b2b629fa793cc93bcb4a9c6edf9962;hp=ffb1dfd50b2008e6788f8a215d92946b122a3d63;hpb=79640424059328268b9fb6c5fa8eb777b27a177e;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd-cat.xml b/man/systemd-cat.xml index ffb1dfd50..16a8eb456 100644 --- a/man/systemd-cat.xml +++ b/man/systemd-cat.xml @@ -60,18 +60,18 @@ Description systemd-cat may be used to - connect STDOUT and STDERR of a process with the + connect the standard input and output of a process to the journal, or as a filter tool in a shell pipeline to pass the output the previous pipeline element generates to the journal. If no parameter is passed, systemd-cat will write - everything it reads from standard input (STDIN) to the journal. + everything it reads from standard input (stdin) to the journal. If parameters are passed, they are executed as - command line with standard output (STDOUT) and standard - error output (STDERR) connected to the journal, so + command line with standard output (stdout) and standard + error output (stderr) connected to the journal, so that all it writes is stored in the journal. @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Exit status - On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure + On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Invoke a program This calls /bin/ls - with STDOUT/STDERR connected to the + with standard output and error connected to the journal: # systemd-cat ls @@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ Even though the two examples have very similar effects the first is preferable since only one process - is running at a time, and both STDOUT and STDERR are - captured while in the second example only STDOUT is + is running at a time, and both stdout and stderr are + captured while in the second example only stdout is captured.