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-rwxr-xr-xbin/filter-bash-environment.py7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bin/filter-bash-environment.py b/bin/filter-bash-environment.py
index c5d5da45e..8f4b6d0cb 100755
--- a/bin/filter-bash-environment.py
+++ b/bin/filter-bash-environment.py
@@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
description = "Filter out variable assignments for varable " + \
"names matching a given PATTERN " + \
"while leaving bash function definitions and here-documents " + \
- "intact. The PATTERN should use python regular expression syntax" + \
- " but [:digit:], [:space:] and " + \
- "[:alnum:] character classes will be automatically translated " + \
+ "intact. The PATTERN is a space separated list of variable names" + \
+ " and it supports python regular expression syntax in addition to" + \
+ " [:alnum:], [:digit:], and [:space:] " + \
+ "character classes which will be automatically translated " + \
"for compatibility with egrep syntax."
usage = "usage: %s PATTERN" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
from optparse import OptionParser