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authorJay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>2022-01-28 13:48:22 +0100
committerJay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>2022-01-30 19:11:03 +0100
commit0e909bab8e6eabb96b0bbe8063138d04d5a4ac7f (patch)
treeeee6fd3b83f4176d934ccc537956a346b57db546 /libqpdf
parent0364024781ffa709a1a86ae9c6638f71df0317ca (diff)
downloadqpdf-0e909bab8e6eabb96b0bbe8063138d04d5a4ac7f.tar.zst
Improve top-level help information
Diffstat (limited to 'libqpdf')
-rw-r--r--libqpdf/QPDFArgParser.cc2
-rw-r--r--libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFArgParser.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFArgParser.cc
index 4018d4e1..194f5b16 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFArgParser.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFArgParser.cc
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ QPDFArgParser::getTopHelp(std::ostringstream& msg)
msg << "Run \"" << this->m->whoami
<< " --help=topic\" for help on a topic." << std::endl
<< "Run \"" << this->m->whoami
- << " --help=option\" for help on an option." << std::endl
+ << " --help=--option\" for help on an option." << std::endl
<< "Run \"" << this->m->whoami
<< " --help=all\" to see all available help." << std::endl
<< std::endl
diff --git a/libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh b/libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh
index f6d9ecc5..b50025e4 100644
--- a/libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh
+++ b/libqpdf/qpdf/auto_job_help.hh
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ static void add_help_1(QPDFArgParser& ap)
ap.addHelpTopic("usage", "basic invocation", R"(Read a PDF file, apply transformations or modifications, and write
a new PDF file.
-Usage: qpdf infile [options] [outfile]
- OR qpdf help-option
+Usage: qpdf [infile] [options] [outfile]
+ OR qpdf --help[={topic|--option}]
- infile, options, and outfile may be in any order as long as infile
precedes outfile.