1 2006-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Say that --retry
4 is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
6 2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
8 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
10 * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
11 affects only file permission bits.
13 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
15 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
18 2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
20 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
21 [--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf.
22 Sort option descriptions.
24 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
26 * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
27 (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
29 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
31 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
32 --random-sort, and use a simpler example.
34 2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
36 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.
38 2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
40 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.
42 2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
44 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
47 2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
49 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
51 (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
52 option and at most one file.
54 2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
56 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
57 enumerated list and fix a typo. From Aaron Hawley.
59 2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
61 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
62 --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
63 --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
65 2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
67 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).
69 2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
71 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
72 like "tail -2" more precisely.
73 (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
75 2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
77 * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.
79 2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
81 * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
82 (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
84 2005-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
86 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
87 now that we've decided to keep it.
88 (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).
90 2005-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
92 * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.
94 2005-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
96 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
97 "touch -" now touches standard output.
99 2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
101 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
103 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
105 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
106 the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
108 2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
110 * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
111 Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
112 "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
113 and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
114 it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
115 Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
116 (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
119 2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
121 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
122 "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
124 2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
126 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
127 to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
128 "priority" when niceness is intended.
130 2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
132 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
135 2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
137 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
138 brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
140 2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
142 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
145 2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
147 * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
148 Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
149 with status >1 on some hosts.
150 (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
152 2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
154 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
155 affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
157 2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
159 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
160 (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
161 binary mode are used now.
162 (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
163 causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
166 2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
168 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
169 (mv invocation): Likewise.
171 2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
173 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
175 2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
177 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
180 2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
182 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
183 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
185 2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
187 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
188 works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
189 Patch from Mark Melahn.
191 2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
193 * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
195 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
197 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
199 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
201 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
202 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
203 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
204 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
206 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
208 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
209 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
210 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
212 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
214 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
216 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
218 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
219 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
221 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
223 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
224 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
227 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
229 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
230 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
231 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
232 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
233 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
234 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
235 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
236 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
237 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
238 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
239 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
240 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
241 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
242 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
245 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
247 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
248 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
249 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
250 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
251 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
253 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
254 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
255 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
256 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
257 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
258 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
259 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
260 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
261 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
262 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
264 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
266 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
267 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
268 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
269 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
270 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
272 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
274 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
275 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
277 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
279 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
280 listed directories too, not just their contents.
282 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
284 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
285 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
287 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
289 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
290 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
291 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
292 to the usage messages.
293 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
296 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
298 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
300 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
302 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
304 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
306 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
307 may be treated as errors.
309 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
311 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
312 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
313 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
314 with POSIX. All uses changed.
315 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
316 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
317 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
318 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
319 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
320 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
321 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
322 Likewise for other changes.
323 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
324 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
326 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
328 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
329 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
330 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
331 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
332 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
333 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
334 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
335 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
336 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
337 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
338 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
339 For %e, use blank in example.
340 For %h, use @code for %b.
341 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
342 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
343 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
344 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
345 Mention field widths an modifiers.
346 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
348 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
350 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
351 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
353 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
355 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
356 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
357 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
359 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
361 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
362 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
363 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
364 by Stephane Chazelas.
366 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
368 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
369 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
371 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
373 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
374 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
376 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
378 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
380 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
382 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
383 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
385 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
387 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
389 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
391 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
392 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
394 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
396 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
397 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
398 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
399 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
400 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
402 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
404 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
405 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
406 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
407 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
408 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
410 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
411 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
413 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
414 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
416 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
418 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
420 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
422 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
423 seconds, and bytes per second.
425 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
427 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
428 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
431 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
433 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
435 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
436 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
438 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
440 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
442 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
443 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
444 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
445 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
447 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
449 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
451 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
453 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
455 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
456 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
457 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
458 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
459 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
460 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
462 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
464 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
465 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
467 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
469 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
470 index entries to proper paragraph.
472 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
474 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
475 the list of words to avoid.
477 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
479 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
480 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
481 with POSIX terminology.
482 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
483 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
485 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
486 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
487 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
488 spellings, or duplicates.
490 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
492 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
494 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
496 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
498 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
500 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
501 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
502 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
505 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
507 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
508 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
509 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
510 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
512 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
514 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
515 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
516 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
518 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
520 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
521 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
522 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
524 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
526 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
528 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
529 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
530 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
531 This program doesn't reorder options.
532 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
533 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
534 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
535 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
536 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
537 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
539 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
540 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
542 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
544 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
545 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
546 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
547 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
549 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
551 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
552 quoting strings for the shell.
554 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
556 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
557 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
558 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
560 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
562 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
563 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
564 rather than "tabstop".
565 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
566 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
567 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
568 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
570 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
572 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
573 group must always be preceded by separator.
574 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
575 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
576 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
577 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
580 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
582 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
583 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
585 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
587 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
588 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
589 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
591 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
593 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
595 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
597 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
598 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
599 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
600 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
601 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
602 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
603 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
604 "most shells" have one.
606 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
608 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
609 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
611 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
613 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
614 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
615 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
616 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
618 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
620 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
621 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
622 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
623 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
624 the language is similar for all.
626 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
628 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
629 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
630 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
631 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
632 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
633 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
634 interpretation of operands as options.
635 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
636 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
637 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
638 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
639 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
640 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
642 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
643 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
645 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
646 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
647 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
648 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
649 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
650 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
651 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
653 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
654 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
656 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
658 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
660 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
661 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
662 options from their operands.
663 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
664 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
665 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
666 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
667 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
668 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
669 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
670 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
671 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
672 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
674 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
676 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
677 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
679 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
681 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
682 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
684 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
685 that we have --no-target-directory.
686 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
688 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
691 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
693 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
694 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
696 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
698 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
699 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
700 work unconditionally.
702 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
704 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
706 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
708 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
709 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
711 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
713 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
714 does with byte/character ranges.
716 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
718 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
720 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
722 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
724 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
726 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
727 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
729 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
731 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
732 might write F before reading all the input.
734 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
736 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
737 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
739 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
741 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
742 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
743 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
744 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
745 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
746 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
747 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
748 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
749 than agglomerating them.
751 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
753 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
754 file system time stamp resolution into account.
756 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
757 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
759 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
761 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
763 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
765 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
766 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
768 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
770 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
772 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
774 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
776 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
778 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
780 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
782 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
784 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
785 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
787 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
789 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
790 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
792 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
794 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
795 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
797 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
799 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
800 `overfull hbox' warnings.
802 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
804 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
806 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
808 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
809 Describe use of fractional seconds.
810 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
811 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
812 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
813 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
815 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
816 get_date when talking about the function name.
817 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
818 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
819 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
820 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
821 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
823 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
824 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
825 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
826 Describe fractional-second syntax.
828 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
830 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
831 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
833 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
834 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
836 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
838 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
839 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
840 Reported by Arvind Autar.
842 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
843 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
845 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
846 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
847 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
849 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
851 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
852 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
853 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
855 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
857 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
858 currently evokes a warning.
860 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
862 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
863 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
864 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
865 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
868 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
870 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
871 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
873 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
875 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
876 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
878 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
880 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
881 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
882 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
884 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
886 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
887 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
888 (factor invocation): Add an example.
889 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
891 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
893 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
894 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
895 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
896 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
898 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
900 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
901 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
902 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
903 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
904 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
905 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
907 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
908 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
909 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
911 (nice invocation): Likewise.
913 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
915 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
916 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
918 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
920 Factor out some common options.
921 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
922 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
923 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
924 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
926 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
928 Document the exit status of each and every program.
929 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
930 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
931 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
932 (nice invocation): Likewise.
933 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
934 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
936 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
938 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
939 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
941 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
943 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
945 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
947 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
948 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
950 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
951 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
952 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
954 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
956 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
957 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
958 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
960 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
961 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
963 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
965 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
967 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
968 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
970 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
972 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
973 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
974 (chgrp invocation): And here.
976 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
978 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
980 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
982 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
983 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
985 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
987 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
988 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
991 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
993 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
995 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
997 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
1000 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1002 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
1003 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
1004 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
1006 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1008 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
1009 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
1010 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
1012 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1014 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
1015 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
1017 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1019 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
1020 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
1021 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
1023 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1025 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
1026 fuzz in relative units.
1028 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1030 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
1031 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
1033 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1035 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
1036 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
1038 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1040 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
1042 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1044 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
1047 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1049 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
1050 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
1051 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
1053 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1055 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
1056 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
1058 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1060 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
1061 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
1063 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
1064 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
1066 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1068 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
1069 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
1070 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
1072 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1074 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
1075 to the related examples.
1076 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
1077 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1079 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1081 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
1082 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
1083 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
1085 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1087 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
1089 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1091 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
1092 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
1093 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
1094 consistent with POSIX.
1095 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
1096 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
1097 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
1099 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1101 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
1102 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
1103 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
1105 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1107 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
1108 It uses standard exit codes.
1109 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
1110 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
1112 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1114 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
1115 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
1116 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
1117 \0NNN in the %b operand.
1119 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1121 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
1122 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
1124 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
1126 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1128 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
1129 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
1130 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
1132 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1134 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
1135 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
1137 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
1138 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
1140 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1142 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
1144 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
1146 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1148 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
1149 is now the default for non-regular files.
1151 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1153 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
1154 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
1156 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1158 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
1159 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
1160 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
1162 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
1164 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
1166 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
1167 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
1168 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
1169 of @code for program names.
1171 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1173 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
1174 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
1176 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1178 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
1181 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
1182 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
1183 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
1184 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
1185 Mostly from Karl Berry.
1187 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1189 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
1190 --output-delimiter=STR.
1192 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1194 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1195 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1197 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1198 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1200 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1203 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1205 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1206 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1208 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1210 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1211 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1212 and somewhat contradictory.
1214 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1215 formatting): Undo last change.
1217 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1219 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1220 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1221 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1222 specified on the command line.
1224 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1226 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1228 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1230 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1231 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1233 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1235 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1236 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1238 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1240 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1241 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1242 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1244 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1246 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1247 change \0x prefix to \x.
1248 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1250 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1252 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1253 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1255 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1256 This affects display format as well as block size.
1257 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1258 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1259 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1260 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1261 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1262 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1263 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1264 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1267 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1269 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1270 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1271 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1272 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1274 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1276 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1277 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1279 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1281 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1283 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1285 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1287 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1288 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1289 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1290 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1292 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1294 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1297 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1299 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1300 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1301 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1303 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1305 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1306 From Martin Michlmayr.
1308 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1310 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1311 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1313 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1315 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1317 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1319 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1321 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1322 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1324 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1326 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1327 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1329 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1331 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1333 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1335 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1337 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1339 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1340 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1342 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1344 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1347 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1349 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1350 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1352 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1354 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1356 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1358 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1359 Document POSIX signals better.
1361 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1363 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1364 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1366 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1368 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1370 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1372 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1373 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1375 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1377 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1378 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1379 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1381 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1383 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1384 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1387 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1389 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1390 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1393 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1394 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1395 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1396 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1397 links unless you also specify -P.
1399 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1401 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1402 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1404 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1406 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1407 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1409 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1411 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1412 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1414 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1416 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1417 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1419 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1421 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1422 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1424 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1426 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1427 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1428 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1430 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1432 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1433 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1435 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1437 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1438 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1440 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1442 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1443 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1444 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1445 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1447 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1449 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1451 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1453 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1455 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1457 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1458 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1460 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1462 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1463 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1464 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1465 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1467 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1469 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1471 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1473 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1474 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1475 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1476 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1477 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1478 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1480 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1482 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1483 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1485 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1487 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1488 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1490 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1492 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1493 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1495 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1497 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1500 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1502 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1503 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1504 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1506 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1509 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1510 and -o or --operating-system.
1511 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1512 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1513 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1514 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1515 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1517 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1519 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1522 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1524 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1527 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1529 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1531 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1533 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1536 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1538 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1541 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1543 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1544 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1546 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1547 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1549 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1550 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1552 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1554 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1556 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1557 does when given no arguments.
1559 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1561 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1563 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1564 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1566 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.