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diff --git a/man/systemd-cat.xml b/man/systemd-cat.xml
index 350a345d4..e5a867be2 100644
--- a/man/systemd-cat.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-cat.xml
@@ -8,20 +8,21 @@
Copyright 2012 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
-
+systemd-cat
@@ -60,18 +61,18 @@
Descriptionsystemd-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
+ 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
+ If parameters are passed, they are executed as
+ 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.
@@ -81,20 +82,8 @@
The following options are understood:
-
-
-
-
- Prints a short help
- text and exits.
-
-
-
-
-
- Prints a short version
- string and exits.
-
+
+
@@ -102,7 +91,7 @@
Specify a short string
that is used to identify the logging
- tool. If not specified no identifying
+ tool. If not specified, no identification
string is written to the journal.
@@ -120,12 +109,12 @@
warning,
notice,
info,
- debug, resp. a
+ debug, or a
value between 0 and 7 (corresponding
to the same named levels). These
priority values are the same as
defined by
- syslog3. Defaults
+ syslog3. Defaults
to info. Note that
this simply controls the default,
individual lines may be logged with
@@ -141,7 +130,7 @@
Controls whether lines
read are parsed for syslog priority
level prefixes. If enabled (the
- default) a line prefixed with a
+ default), a line prefixed with a
priority prefix such as
<5> is logged
at priority 5
@@ -158,7 +147,7 @@
Exit status
- On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
+ On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
code otherwise.
@@ -168,8 +157,8 @@
Invoke a program
- This calls /bin/ls
- with STDOUT/STDERR connected to the
+ This calls /bin/ls
+ with standard output and error connected to the
journal:# systemd-cat ls
@@ -188,8 +177,8 @@
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.