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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-08-05 20:19:57 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-08-05 20:21:19 -0400
commitbbd46aadf3cd24a5e172ff54111aeaa42daed5d4 (patch)
tree2b0d798b09cfe81f10f803af69367de8593e5f25 /man
parente6898d854d3fc49879c9c9ef61c5212e2d23a0fc (diff)
man: update description of --quiet
This description should provide the general rule, without listing all the subcommands, which is bound to get out of date too often. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/216
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/systemctl.xml13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
index 66a090049d..0b5282ba21 100644
--- a/man/systemctl.xml
+++ b/man/systemctl.xml
@@ -319,14 +319,11 @@
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Suppress output to standard output in
- <command>snapshot</command>,
- <command>is-active</command>,
- <command>is-failed</command>,
- <command>is-enabled</command>,
- <command>is-system-running</command>,
- <command>enable</command> and
- <command>disable</command>.</para>
+ <para>Suppress printing of the results of various commands
+ and also the hints about truncated log lines. This does not
+ suppress output of commands for which the printed output is
+ the only result (like <command>show</command>). Errors are
+ always printed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>