Correct inconsistent html scan doc #2795

kunalchhabra37 · web-flow · commit 0e4fe27d8632 · 2022-01-24T23:36:17.000+01:00
The example to run a scan using the HTML app output was
using the --csv option and not the --html-app option.

Signed-off-by: Kunal Chhabra &lt;kunalchhabra37@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ The following organizations or individuals have contributed to ScanCode:
 - Horie Issei @is2ei
 - James Ward @jamesward
 - Jelmer Vernooĳ @jelmer
+- Kunal Chhabra @kunalchhabra37
 - Jillian Daguil @jdaguil
 - Jiri Popelka @jpopelka
 - Jiyeong Seok @dd-jy
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ Changelog
 
 31.0.0 (next, roadmap)
 -----------------------
-
-
+Documentation Update
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Changed scancode -clpieu --csv output.html samples to scancode -clpieu --html-app output.html samples to publish the result in [html-app] at
+[output-format.html](https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli-reference/output-format.html#html-app-file)
+ 
 
 Important API changes:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/docs/source/cli-reference/output-format.rst b/docs/source/cli-reference/output-format.rst
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ Comparing Different ``json`` Output Formats
     The following code performs a scan on the samples directory, and publishes the results in
     ``html-app`` format::
 
-        scancode -clpieu --csv output.html samples
+        scancode -clpieu --html-app output.html samples
 
     The Files scanned are shown in the left sidebar, and the section on the right contains separate
     tabs for the following:
