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authorRich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>2019-11-21 18:14:12 -0500
committerTomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>2019-11-28 13:58:51 +0100
commitd86925e6bdaf3544615860e932d66207662d335e (patch)
treee581f323ae305bd61905fe237477d18506ddf318 /doc/man1/openssl.pod
parent22bb8c254555036725aacb64c056bd8b3379fc4c (diff)
Use option/parameter consistently.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10135)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man1/openssl.pod')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man1/openssl.pod b/doc/man1/openssl.pod
index 7c61d125cb..4ff5784124 100644
--- a/doc/man1/openssl.pod
+++ b/doc/man1/openssl.pod
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ openssl - OpenSSL command line tool
B<openssl>
I<command>
-[ I<command_opts> ... ]
-[ I<command_args> ... ]
+[ I<options> ... ]
+[ I<parameters> ... ]
B<openssl>
B<list>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ B<-digest-algorithms> |
B<-mac-algorithms> |
B<-public-key-algorithms>
-B<openssl> B<no->I<XXX> [ I<arbitrary options> ]
+B<openssl> B<no->I<XXX> [ I<options> ]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ It can be used for
=head1 COMMAND SUMMARY
The B<openssl> program provides a rich variety of commands (I<command> in
-the SYNOPSIS above), each of which often has a wealth of options and arguments
-(I<command_opts> and I<command_args> in the SYNOPSIS).
+the L</SYNOPSIS> above).
+Each command can have many options and argument parameters, shown above as
+I<options> and I<parameters>.
Detailed documentation and use cases for most standard subcommands are available
(e.g., L<openssl-x509(1)>).
@@ -398,8 +399,7 @@ The following aliases provide convenient access to the most used encodings
and ciphers.
Depending on how OpenSSL was configured and built, not all ciphers listed
-here may be present. See L<openssl-enc(1)> for more information and command
-usage.
+here may be present. See L<openssl-enc(1)> for more information.
=over 4