From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:17:49 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: docs: add to pgrep.1 count return value information
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docs: add to pgrep.1 count return value information

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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diff --git a/pgrep.1 b/pgrep.1
index 06e1e7f5..a7bb60fc 100644
--- a/pgrep.1
+++ b/pgrep.1
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ the symbolic signal name can be used.
 only.)
 .TP
 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-count\fR
-Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching processes.
-(\fBpgrep\fP only.)
+Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching processes.  When
+count does not match anything, e.g. returns zero, the command will return
+non-zero value.  (\fBpgrep\fP only.)
 .TP
 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-delimeter\fR \fIdelimiter\fP
 Sets the string used to delimit each process ID in the output (by default a