[PATCH 04/14] textual: remove other inconsistent uses of "=" before option argument

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.util-linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
And remove inconsistent uses of double asterisks too.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
---
 login-utils/lslogins.1.adoc |  4 ++--
 login-utils/su.1.adoc       | 10 +++++-----
 sys-utils/mount.8.adoc      |  2 +-
 sys-utils/wdctl.8.adoc      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/login-utils/lslogins.1.adoc b/login-utils/lslogins.1.adoc
index 6371c2d00..4aeef7cf8 100644
--- a/login-utils/lslogins.1.adoc
+++ b/login-utils/lslogins.1.adoc
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Display data about the users' last failed login attempts.
 *-G*, *--supp-groups*::
 Show information about supplementary groups.
 
-*-g*, **--groups**=_groups_::
+*-g*, *--groups* _groups_::
 Only show data of users belonging to _groups_. More than one group may be specified; the list has to be comma-separated. Unknown group names are ignored.
 +
 Note that the relation between user and group may be invisible for the primary group if the user is not explicitly specified as group member (e.g., in _/etc/group_). If the command *lslogins* scans for groups then it uses the groups database only, and the user database with primary GID is not used at all.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Note that the relation between user and group may be invisible for the primary g
 *-L*, *--last*::
 Display data containing information about the users' last login sessions.
 
-*-l*, **--logins**=_logins_::
+*-l*, *--logins* _logins_::
 Only show data of users with a login specified in _logins_ (user names or user IDs). More than one login may be specified; the list has to be comma-separated. Unknown login names are ignored.
 
 *-n*, *--newline*::
diff --git a/login-utils/su.1.adoc b/login-utils/su.1.adoc
index 33f45833f..866139755 100644
--- a/login-utils/su.1.adoc
+++ b/login-utils/su.1.adoc
@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ Since version 2.38 *su* resets process resource limits RLIMIT_NICE, RLIMIT_RTPRI
 
 == OPTIONS
 
-*-c*, **--command**=__command__::
+*-c*, *--command* __command__::
 Pass _command_ to the shell with the *-c* option.
 
 *-f*, *--fast*::
 Pass *-f* to the shell, which may or may not be useful, depending on the shell.
 
-*-g*, **--group**=__group__::
+*-g*, *--group* __group__::
 Specify the primary group. This option is available to the root user only.
 
-*-G*, **--supp-group**=__group__::
+*-G*, *--supp-group* __group__::
 Specify a supplementary group. This option is available to the root user only. The first specified supplementary group is also used as a primary group if the option *--group* is not specified.
 
 *-*, *-l*, *--login*::
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Create a pseudo-terminal for the session. The independent terminal provides bett
 +
 This feature is mostly designed for interactive sessions. If the standard input is not a terminal, but for example a pipe (e.g., *echo "date" | su --pty*), then the *ECHO* flag for the pseudo-terminal is disabled to avoid messy output.
 
-*-s*, **--shell**=__shell__::
+*-s*, *--shell* __shell__::
 Run the specified _shell_ instead of the default. If the target user has a restricted shell (i.e., not listed in _/etc/shells_), the *--shell* option and the *SHELL* environment variables are ignored unless the calling user is root.
 +
 The shell to run is selected according to the following rules, in order:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Same as *-c*, but do not create a new session. (Discouraged.)
 Do not create a pseudo-terminal, opposite of *--pty* and *-P*.
 Note that running without a pseudo-terminal opens the security risk of privilege escalation through TIOCSTI/TIOCLINUX ioctl command injection.
 
-*-w*, **--whitelist-environment**=__list__::
+*-w*, *--whitelist-environment* __list__::
 Don't reset the environment variables specified in the comma-separated _list_ when clearing the environment for *--login*. The whitelist is ignored for the environment variables *HOME*, *SHELL*, *USER*, *LOGNAME*, and *PATH*.
 
 include::man-common/help-version.adoc[]
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc
index 92ff15dfb..08a2e731c 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8.adoc
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ Add the labels in the mount output. *mount* must have permission to read the dis
 *-M*, *--move*::
 Move a subtree to some other place. See above, the subsection *The move operation*.
 
-*-m*, **--mkdir**[=__mode__]::
+*-m*, *--mkdir*[**=**__mode__]::
 Allow to make a target directory (mountpoint) if it does not exist yet. Alias to "-o X-mount.mkdir[=mode]", the default mode is 0755. For more details see *X-mount.mkdir* below.
 
 *--map-groups*, *--map-users* _inner_:_outer_:_count_::
diff --git a/sys-utils/wdctl.8.adoc b/sys-utils/wdctl.8.adoc
index 6eb44e5d8..5fec3584e 100644
--- a/sys-utils/wdctl.8.adoc
+++ b/sys-utils/wdctl.8.adoc
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Print all wanted information on one line in key="value" output format.
 Set the watchdog pre-timeout in seconds. A watchdog pre-timeout is a
 notification generated by the watchdog before the watchdog reset might occur in
 the event the watchdog has not been serviced. This notification is handled by
-the kernel and can be configured to take an action using sysfs or by **--setpregovernor**.
+the kernel and can be configured to take an action using sysfs or by *--setpregovernor*.
 
 *-g*, *--setpregovernor* _governor_::
 Set pre-timeout governor name. For available governors see default **wdctl** output.
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