X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-cat.xml;h=e61a6ac8f97334ee6c46ab25a1492e747c97d818;hb=a03c5fd2d86c4e3f758a5ca0d98638e5c8bd8d8d;hp=ba7a2cf0c75879c8db7255875f2ea15049564bfd;hpb=b040723ea412209e0edf54647fa5aa4287411507;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/systemd-cat.xml b/man/systemd-cat.xml index ba7a2cf0c..e61a6ac8f 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. @@ -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.