This patch, put together by Manuel Novoa III, is a merge of work

done by Evin Robertson (bug#1105) and work from Manuel to make
usage messages occupy less space and simplify how usage messages
are displayed.

coreutils/length.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 extern int length_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	if (argc != 2 || **(argv + 1) == '-')
-		usage(length_usage);
+		show_usage();
 	printf("%lu\n", (long)strlen(argv[1]));
 	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }