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authorAndrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>2013-01-29 21:38:48 -0500
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2013-02-07 10:48:11 +1000
commitec339969d9479d21256ac3954d9292fa83f9a017 (patch)
tree65646673d68881d44d5eddcbbf277d3921167e8e
parent7956441350f0de11394de9afdcf95a54d608bc47 (diff)
document that stdin must not be a tty to read from it
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.8.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index de28b9ca..358d5065 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ front ends to be written (for instance, a GUI front end).
Invoking pacman involves specifying an operation with any potential options and
targets to operate on. A 'target' is usually a package name, filename, URL, or
a search string. Targets can be provided as command line arguments.
-Additionally, if a single dash (-) is passed as an argument, targets will be
-read from stdin.
+Additionally, if stdin is not from a terminal and a single dash (-) is passed
+as an argument, targets will be read from stdin.
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