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Documentation: input.txt: clarify mousedev 'cat' command syntax

Clarify that the 'cat' command does not include the (c, 13, 32)
after it.

Reported-by: Dan Jidanni Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Randy Dunlap and committed by
Linus Torvalds
09601523 9a7c48b7

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Documentation/input/input.txt
··· 250 250 a USB keyboard works and is correctly connected to the kernel keyboard 251 251 driver. 252 252 253 - Doing a cat /dev/input/mouse0 (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse 254 - is also emulated, characters should appear if you move it. 253 + Doing a "cat /dev/input/mouse0" (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse 254 + is also emulated; characters should appear if you move it. 255 255 256 256 You can test the joystick emulation with the 'jstest' utility, 257 257 available in the joystick package (see Documentation/input/joystick.txt).