1 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
5 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
7 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
8 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
9 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
10 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
12 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
14 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
15 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
16 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
18 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
20 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
22 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
24 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
25 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
27 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
29 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
30 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
33 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
35 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
36 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
37 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
38 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
39 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
40 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
41 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
42 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
43 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
44 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
45 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
46 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
47 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
48 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
51 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
53 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
54 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
55 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
56 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
57 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
59 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
60 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
61 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
62 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
63 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
64 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
65 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
66 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
67 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
68 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
70 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
72 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
73 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
74 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
75 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
76 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
78 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
80 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
81 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
83 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
85 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
86 listed directories too, not just their contents.
88 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
90 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
91 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
93 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
95 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
96 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
97 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
98 to the usage messages.
99 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
102 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
104 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
106 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
108 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
110 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
112 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
113 may be treated as errors.
115 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
117 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
118 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
119 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
120 with POSIX. All uses changed.
121 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
122 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
123 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
124 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
125 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
126 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
127 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
128 Likewise for other changes.
129 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
130 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
132 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
134 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
135 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
136 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
137 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
138 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
139 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
140 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
141 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
142 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
143 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
144 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
145 For %e, use blank in example.
146 For %h, use @code for %b.
147 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
148 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
149 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
150 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
151 Mention field widths an modifiers.
152 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
154 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
156 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
157 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
159 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
161 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
162 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
163 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
165 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
167 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
168 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
169 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
170 by Stephane Chazelas.
172 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
174 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
175 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
177 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
179 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
180 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
182 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
184 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
186 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
188 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
189 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
191 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
193 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
195 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
197 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
198 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
200 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
202 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
203 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
204 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
205 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
206 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
208 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
210 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
211 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
212 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
213 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
214 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
216 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
217 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
219 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
220 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
222 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
224 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
226 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
228 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
229 seconds, and bytes per second.
231 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
233 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
234 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
237 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
239 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
241 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
242 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
244 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
246 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
248 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
249 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
250 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
251 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
253 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
255 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
257 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
259 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
261 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
262 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
263 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
264 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
265 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
266 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
268 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
270 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
271 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
273 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
275 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
276 index entries to proper paragraph.
278 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
280 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
281 the list of words to avoid.
283 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
285 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
286 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
287 with POSIX terminology.
288 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
289 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
291 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
292 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
293 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
294 spellings, or duplicates.
296 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
298 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
300 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
302 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
304 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
306 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
307 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
308 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
311 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
313 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
314 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
315 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
316 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
318 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
320 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
321 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
322 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
324 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
326 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
327 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
328 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
330 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
332 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
334 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
335 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
336 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
337 This program doesn't reorder options.
338 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
339 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
340 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
341 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
342 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
343 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
345 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
346 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
348 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
350 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
351 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
352 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
353 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
355 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
357 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
358 quoting strings for the shell.
360 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
362 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
363 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
364 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
366 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
368 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
369 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
370 rather than "tabstop".
371 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
372 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
373 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
374 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
376 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
378 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
379 group must always be preceded by separator.
380 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
381 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
382 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
383 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
386 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
388 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
389 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
391 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
393 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
394 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
395 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
397 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
399 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
401 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
403 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
404 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
405 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
406 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
407 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
408 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
409 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
410 "most shells" have one.
412 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
414 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
415 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
417 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
419 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
420 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
421 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
422 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
424 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
426 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
427 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
428 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
429 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
430 the language is similar for all.
432 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
434 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
435 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
436 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
437 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
438 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
439 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
440 interpretation of operands as options.
441 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
442 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
443 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
444 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
445 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
446 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
448 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
449 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
451 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
452 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
453 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
454 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
455 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
456 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
457 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
459 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
460 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
462 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
464 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
466 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
467 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
468 options from their operands.
469 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
470 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
471 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
472 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
473 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
474 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
475 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
476 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
477 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
478 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
480 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
482 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
483 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
485 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
487 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
488 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
490 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
491 that we have --no-target-directory.
492 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
494 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
497 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
499 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
500 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
502 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
504 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
505 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
506 work unconditionally.
508 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
510 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
512 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
514 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
515 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
517 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
519 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
520 does with byte/character ranges.
522 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
524 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
526 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
528 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
530 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
532 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
533 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
535 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
537 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
538 might write F before reading all the input.
540 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
542 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
543 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
545 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
547 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
548 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
549 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
550 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
551 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
552 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
553 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
554 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
555 than agglomerating them.
557 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
559 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
560 file system time stamp resolution into account.
562 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
563 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
565 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
567 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
569 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
571 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
572 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
574 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
576 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
578 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
580 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
582 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
584 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
586 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
588 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
590 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
591 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
593 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
595 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
596 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
598 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
600 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
601 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
603 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
605 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
606 `overfull hbox' warnings.
608 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
610 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
612 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
614 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
615 Describe use of fractional seconds.
616 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
617 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
618 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
619 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
621 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
622 get_date when talking about the function name.
623 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
624 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
625 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
626 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
627 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
629 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
630 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
631 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
632 Describe fractional-second syntax.
634 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
636 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
637 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
639 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
640 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
642 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
644 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
645 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
646 Reported by Arvind Autar.
648 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
649 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
651 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
652 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
653 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
655 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
657 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
658 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
659 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
661 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
663 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
664 currently evokes a warning.
666 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
668 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
669 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
670 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
671 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
674 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
676 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
677 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
679 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
681 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
682 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
684 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
686 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
687 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
688 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
690 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
692 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
693 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
694 (factor invocation): Add an example.
695 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
697 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
699 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
700 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
701 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
702 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
704 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
706 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
707 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
708 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
709 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
710 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
711 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
713 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
714 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
715 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
717 (nice invocation): Likewise.
719 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
721 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
722 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
724 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
726 Factor out some common options.
727 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
728 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
729 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
730 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
732 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
734 Document the exit status of each and every program.
735 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
736 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
737 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
738 (nice invocation): Likewise.
739 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
740 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
742 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
744 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
745 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
747 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
749 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
751 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
753 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
754 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
756 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
757 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
758 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
760 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
762 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
763 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
764 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
766 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
767 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
769 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
771 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
773 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
774 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
776 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
778 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
779 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
780 (chgrp invocation): And here.
782 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
784 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
786 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
788 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
789 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
791 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
793 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
794 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
797 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
799 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
801 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
803 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
806 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
808 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
809 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
810 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
812 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
814 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
815 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
816 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
818 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
820 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
821 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
823 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
825 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
826 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
827 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
829 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
831 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
832 fuzz in relative units.
834 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
836 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
837 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
839 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
841 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
842 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
844 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
846 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
848 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
850 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
853 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
855 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
856 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
857 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
859 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
861 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
862 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
864 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
866 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
867 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
869 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
870 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
872 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
874 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
875 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
876 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
878 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
880 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
881 to the related examples.
882 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
883 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
885 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
887 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
888 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
889 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
891 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
893 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
895 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
897 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
898 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
899 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
900 consistent with POSIX.
901 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
902 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
903 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
905 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
907 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
908 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
909 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
911 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
913 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
914 It uses standard exit codes.
915 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
916 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
918 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
920 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
921 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
922 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
923 \0NNN in the %b operand.
925 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
927 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
928 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
930 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
932 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
934 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
935 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
936 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
938 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
940 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
941 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
943 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
944 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
946 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
948 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
950 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
952 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
954 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
955 is now the default for non-regular files.
957 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
959 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
960 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
962 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
964 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
965 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
966 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
968 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
970 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
972 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
973 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
974 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
975 of @code for program names.
977 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
979 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
980 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
982 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
984 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
987 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
988 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
989 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
990 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
991 Mostly from Karl Berry.
993 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
995 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
996 --output-delimiter=STR.
998 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1000 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1001 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1003 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1004 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1006 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1009 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1011 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1012 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1014 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1016 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1017 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1018 and somewhat contradictory.
1020 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1021 formatting): Undo last change.
1023 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1025 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1026 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1027 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1028 specified on the command line.
1030 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1032 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1034 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1036 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1037 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1039 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1041 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1042 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1044 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1046 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1047 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1048 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1050 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1052 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1053 change \0x prefix to \x.
1054 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1056 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1058 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1059 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1061 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1062 This affects display format as well as block size.
1063 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1064 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1065 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1066 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1067 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1068 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1069 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1070 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1073 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1075 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1076 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1077 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1078 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1080 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1082 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1083 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1085 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1087 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1089 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1091 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1093 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1094 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1095 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1096 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1098 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1100 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1103 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1105 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1106 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1107 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1109 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1111 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1112 From Martin Michlmayr.
1114 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1116 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1117 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1119 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1121 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1123 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1125 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1127 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1128 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1130 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1132 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1133 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1135 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1137 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1139 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1141 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1143 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1145 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1146 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1148 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1150 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1153 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1155 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1156 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1158 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1160 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1162 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1164 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1165 Document POSIX signals better.
1167 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1169 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1170 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1172 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1174 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1176 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1178 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1179 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1181 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1183 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1184 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1185 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1187 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1189 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1190 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1193 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1195 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1196 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1199 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1200 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1201 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1202 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1203 links unless you also specify -P.
1205 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1207 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1208 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1210 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1212 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1213 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1215 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1217 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1218 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1220 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1222 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1223 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1225 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1227 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1228 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1230 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1232 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1233 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1234 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1236 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1238 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1239 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1241 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1243 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1244 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1246 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1248 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1249 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1250 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1251 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1253 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1255 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1257 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1259 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1261 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1263 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1264 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1266 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1268 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1269 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1270 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1271 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1273 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1275 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1277 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1279 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1280 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1281 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1282 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1283 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1284 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1286 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1288 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1289 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1291 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1293 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1294 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1296 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1298 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1299 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1301 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1303 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1306 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1308 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1309 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1310 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1312 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1315 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1316 and -o or --operating-system.
1317 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1318 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1319 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1320 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1321 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1323 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1325 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1328 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1330 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1333 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1335 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1337 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1339 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1342 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1344 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1347 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1349 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1350 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1352 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1353 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1355 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1356 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1358 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1360 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1362 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1363 does when given no arguments.
1365 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1367 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1369 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1370 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1372 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.