flag: clarify comment to avoid shell syntax confusion

Updates #22961 Change-Id: Ib2f41aefb4f6470598d8637611da5491156ea840 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/82015 Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>
cloudflare · Dec 6, 2017 · ef544b6 · ef544b6
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diff --git a/src/flag/flag.go b/src/flag/flag.go
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@
  The last form is not permitted for boolean flags because the
  meaning of the command
  cmd -x *
- will change if there is a file called 0, false, etc. You must
- use the -flag=false form to turn off a boolean flag.
+ where * is a Unix shell wildcard, will change if there is a file
+ called 0, false, etc. You must use the -flag=false form to turn
+ off a boolean flag.
 
  Flag parsing stops just before the first non-flag argument
  ("-" is a non-flag argument) or after the terminator "--".