From 97152f356a608ce03dcbe473edfd645cdd021851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Sven M. Hallberg" <pesco@khjk.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 16:05:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] document generalized behavior of oid argument
---
README | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 6a963a5..124440b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -31,13 +31,16 @@ USAGE
It exits 0 on success, 1 if the input file was found to be invalid, and >1
if an error occurs.
+ The optional oid argument selects a specific object to print instead of the
+ whole document. It is expected to be of the form "n.g" where n and g are
+ object and generation numbers, respectively. The generation number may be
+ omitted to pick the latest object matching n.
+
The options are as follows:
-d s
Dump the body data, after filter decoding, of a given stream object.
- The oid argument is expected to be of the form "n.g" where n and g
- are object and generation numbers, respectively. The generation number
- may be omitted to pick the latest object matching n.
+ An oid argument is required.
-q Query/quiet mode. Do not print to stdout and suppress any messages
about parse errors. Just indicate success/failure via the exit status.
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