1 2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
5 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
7 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
8 the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
10 2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
12 * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
13 Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
14 "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
15 and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
16 it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
17 Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
18 (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
21 2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
23 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
24 "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
26 2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
28 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
29 to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
30 "priority" when niceness is intended.
32 2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
34 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
37 2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
39 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
40 brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
42 2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
44 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
47 2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
49 * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
50 Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
51 with status >1 on some hosts.
52 (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
54 2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
56 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
57 affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
59 2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
61 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
62 (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
63 binary mode are used now.
64 (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
65 causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
68 2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
70 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
71 (mv invocation): Likewise.
73 2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
75 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
77 2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
79 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
82 2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
84 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
85 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
87 2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
89 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
90 works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
91 Patch from Mark Melahn.
93 2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
95 * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
97 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
99 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
101 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
103 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
104 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
105 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
106 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
108 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
110 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
111 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
112 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
114 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
116 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
118 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
120 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
121 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
123 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
125 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
126 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
129 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
131 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
132 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
133 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
134 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
135 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
136 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
137 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
138 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
139 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
140 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
141 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
142 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
143 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
144 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
147 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
149 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
150 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
151 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
152 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
153 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
155 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
156 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
157 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
158 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
159 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
160 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
161 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
162 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
163 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
164 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
166 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
168 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
169 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
170 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
171 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
172 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
174 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
176 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
177 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
179 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
181 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
182 listed directories too, not just their contents.
184 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
186 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
187 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
189 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
191 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
192 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
193 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
194 to the usage messages.
195 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
198 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
200 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
202 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
204 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
206 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
208 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
209 may be treated as errors.
211 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
213 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
214 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
215 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
216 with POSIX. All uses changed.
217 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
218 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
219 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
220 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
221 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
222 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
223 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
224 Likewise for other changes.
225 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
226 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
228 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
230 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
231 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
232 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
233 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
234 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
235 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
236 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
237 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
238 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
239 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
240 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
241 For %e, use blank in example.
242 For %h, use @code for %b.
243 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
244 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
245 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
246 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
247 Mention field widths an modifiers.
248 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
250 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
252 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
253 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
255 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
257 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
258 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
259 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
261 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
263 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
264 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
265 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
266 by Stephane Chazelas.
268 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
270 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
271 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
273 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
275 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
276 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
278 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
280 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
282 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
284 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
285 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
287 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
289 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
291 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
293 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
294 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
296 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
298 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
299 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
300 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
301 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
302 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
304 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
306 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
307 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
308 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
309 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
310 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
312 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
313 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
315 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
316 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
318 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
320 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
322 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
324 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
325 seconds, and bytes per second.
327 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
329 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
330 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
333 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
335 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
337 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
338 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
340 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
342 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
344 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
345 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
346 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
347 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
349 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
351 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
353 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
355 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
357 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
358 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
359 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
360 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
361 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
362 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
364 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
366 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
367 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
369 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
371 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
372 index entries to proper paragraph.
374 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
376 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
377 the list of words to avoid.
379 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
381 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
382 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
383 with POSIX terminology.
384 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
385 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
387 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
388 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
389 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
390 spellings, or duplicates.
392 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
394 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
396 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
398 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
400 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
402 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
403 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
404 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
407 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
409 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
410 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
411 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
412 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
414 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
416 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
417 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
418 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
420 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
422 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
423 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
424 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
426 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
428 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
430 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
431 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
432 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
433 This program doesn't reorder options.
434 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
435 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
436 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
437 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
438 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
439 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
441 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
442 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
444 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
446 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
447 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
448 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
449 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
451 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
453 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
454 quoting strings for the shell.
456 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
458 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
459 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
460 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
462 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
464 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
465 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
466 rather than "tabstop".
467 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
468 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
469 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
470 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
472 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
474 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
475 group must always be preceded by separator.
476 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
477 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
478 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
479 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
482 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
484 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
485 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
487 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
489 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
490 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
491 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
493 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
495 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
497 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
499 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
500 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
501 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
502 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
503 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
504 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
505 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
506 "most shells" have one.
508 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
510 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
511 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
513 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
515 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
516 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
517 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
518 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
520 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
522 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
523 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
524 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
525 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
526 the language is similar for all.
528 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
530 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
531 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
532 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
533 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
534 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
535 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
536 interpretation of operands as options.
537 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
538 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
539 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
540 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
541 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
542 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
544 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
545 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
547 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
548 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
549 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
550 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
551 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
552 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
553 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
555 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
556 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
558 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
560 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
562 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
563 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
564 options from their operands.
565 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
566 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
567 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
568 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
569 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
570 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
571 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
572 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
573 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
574 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
576 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
578 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
579 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
581 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
583 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
584 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
586 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
587 that we have --no-target-directory.
588 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
590 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
593 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
595 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
596 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
598 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
600 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
601 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
602 work unconditionally.
604 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
606 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
608 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
610 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
611 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
613 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
615 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
616 does with byte/character ranges.
618 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
620 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
622 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
624 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
626 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
628 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
629 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
631 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
633 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
634 might write F before reading all the input.
636 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
638 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
639 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
641 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
643 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
644 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
645 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
646 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
647 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
648 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
649 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
650 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
651 than agglomerating them.
653 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
655 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
656 file system time stamp resolution into account.
658 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
659 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
661 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
663 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
665 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
667 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
668 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
670 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
672 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
674 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
676 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
678 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
680 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
682 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
684 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
686 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
687 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
689 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
691 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
692 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
694 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
696 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
697 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
699 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
701 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
702 `overfull hbox' warnings.
704 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
706 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
708 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
710 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
711 Describe use of fractional seconds.
712 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
713 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
714 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
715 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
717 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
718 get_date when talking about the function name.
719 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
720 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
721 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
722 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
723 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
725 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
726 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
727 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
728 Describe fractional-second syntax.
730 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
732 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
733 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
735 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
736 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
738 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
740 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
741 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
742 Reported by Arvind Autar.
744 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
745 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
747 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
748 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
749 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
751 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
753 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
754 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
755 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
757 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
759 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
760 currently evokes a warning.
762 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
764 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
765 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
766 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
767 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
770 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
772 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
773 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
775 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
777 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
778 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
780 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
782 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
783 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
784 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
786 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
788 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
789 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
790 (factor invocation): Add an example.
791 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
793 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
795 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
796 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
797 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
798 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
800 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
802 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
803 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
804 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
805 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
806 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
807 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
809 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
810 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
811 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
813 (nice invocation): Likewise.
815 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
817 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
818 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
820 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
822 Factor out some common options.
823 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
824 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
825 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
826 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
828 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
830 Document the exit status of each and every program.
831 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
832 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
833 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
834 (nice invocation): Likewise.
835 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
836 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
838 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
840 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
841 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
843 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
845 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
847 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
849 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
850 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
852 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
853 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
854 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
856 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
858 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
859 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
860 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
862 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
863 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
865 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
867 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
869 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
870 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
872 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
874 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
875 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
876 (chgrp invocation): And here.
878 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
880 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
882 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
884 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
885 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
887 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
889 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
890 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
893 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
895 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
897 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
899 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
902 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
904 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
905 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
906 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
908 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
910 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
911 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
912 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
914 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
916 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
917 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
919 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
921 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
922 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
923 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
925 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
927 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
928 fuzz in relative units.
930 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
932 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
933 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
935 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
937 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
938 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
940 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
942 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
944 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
946 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
949 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
951 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
952 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
953 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
955 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
957 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
958 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
960 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
962 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
963 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
965 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
966 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
968 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
970 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
971 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
972 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
974 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
976 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
977 to the related examples.
978 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
979 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
981 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
983 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
984 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
985 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
987 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
989 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
991 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
993 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
994 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
995 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
996 consistent with POSIX.
997 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
998 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
999 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
1001 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1003 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
1004 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
1005 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
1007 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1009 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
1010 It uses standard exit codes.
1011 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
1012 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
1014 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1016 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
1017 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
1018 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
1019 \0NNN in the %b operand.
1021 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1023 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
1024 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
1026 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
1028 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1030 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
1031 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
1032 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
1034 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1036 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
1037 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
1039 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
1040 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
1042 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1044 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
1046 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
1048 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1050 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
1051 is now the default for non-regular files.
1053 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1055 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
1056 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
1058 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1060 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
1061 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
1062 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
1064 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
1066 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
1068 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
1069 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
1070 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
1071 of @code for program names.
1073 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1075 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
1076 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
1078 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1080 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
1083 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
1084 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
1085 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
1086 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
1087 Mostly from Karl Berry.
1089 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1091 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
1092 --output-delimiter=STR.
1094 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1096 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1097 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1099 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1100 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1102 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1105 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1107 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1108 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1110 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1112 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1113 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1114 and somewhat contradictory.
1116 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1117 formatting): Undo last change.
1119 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1121 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1122 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1123 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1124 specified on the command line.
1126 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1128 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1130 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1132 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1133 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1135 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1137 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1138 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1140 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1142 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1143 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1144 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1146 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1148 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1149 change \0x prefix to \x.
1150 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1152 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1154 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1155 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1157 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1158 This affects display format as well as block size.
1159 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1160 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1161 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1162 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1163 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1164 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1165 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1166 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1169 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1171 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1172 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1173 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1174 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1176 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1178 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1179 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1181 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1183 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1185 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1187 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1189 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1190 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1191 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1192 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1194 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1196 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1199 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1201 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1202 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1203 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1205 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1207 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1208 From Martin Michlmayr.
1210 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1212 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1213 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1215 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1217 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1219 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1221 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1223 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1224 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1226 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1228 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1229 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1231 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1233 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1235 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1237 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1239 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1241 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1242 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1244 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1246 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1249 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1251 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1252 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1254 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1256 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1258 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1260 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1261 Document POSIX signals better.
1263 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1265 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1266 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1268 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1270 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1272 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1274 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1275 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1277 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1279 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1280 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1281 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1283 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1285 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1286 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1289 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1291 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1292 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1295 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1296 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1297 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1298 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1299 links unless you also specify -P.
1301 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1303 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1304 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1306 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1308 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1309 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1311 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1313 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1314 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1316 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1318 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1319 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1321 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1323 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1324 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1326 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1328 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1329 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1330 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1332 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1334 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1335 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1337 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1339 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1340 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1342 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1344 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1345 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1346 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1347 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1349 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1351 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1353 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1355 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1357 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1359 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1360 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1362 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1364 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1365 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1366 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1367 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1369 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1371 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1373 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1375 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1376 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1377 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1378 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1379 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1380 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1382 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1384 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1385 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1387 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1389 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1390 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1392 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1394 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1395 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1397 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1399 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1402 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1404 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1405 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1406 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1408 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1411 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1412 and -o or --operating-system.
1413 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1414 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1415 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1416 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1417 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1419 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1421 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1424 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1426 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1429 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1431 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1433 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1435 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1438 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1440 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1443 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1445 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1446 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1448 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1449 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1451 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1452 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1454 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1456 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1458 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1459 does when given no arguments.
1461 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1463 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1465 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1466 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1468 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.