1 2006-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): nohup now redirects stderr to
4 nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty.
6 2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
8 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks.
11 2006-02-17 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
13 * coreutils.texi: Add base64 section.
15 2006-02-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
17 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Fix typo in last patch.
18 (paste invocation): Fix whitespace.
20 2006-02-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
22 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Document new -I option, and new
23 --interactive behavior.
25 2006-02-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
27 * coreutils.texi (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
28 backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
29 Mention that `\' also removes any special significance, so
30 is useful for [, ], *, -. Prompted by Richard Neill in
31 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14937
33 2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
35 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
38 2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
40 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
41 count is optional, so put square brackets around it.
43 2006-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
45 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected.
46 (Time of day items): Mention the possibility of leap seconds.
47 Problem reported by Dr. David Alan Gilbert.
49 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym around "ISO" uniformly.
50 (Date conversion specifiers): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better.
52 2006-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
54 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Say that --retry
55 is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
57 2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
59 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
61 * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
62 affects only file permission bits.
64 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
66 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
69 2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
71 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
72 [--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf.
73 Sort option descriptions.
75 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
77 * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
78 (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
80 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
82 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
83 --random-sort, and use a simpler example.
85 2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
87 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.
89 2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
91 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.
93 2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
95 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
98 2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
100 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
102 (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
103 option and at most one file.
105 2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
107 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
108 enumerated list and fix a typo. From Aaron Hawley.
110 2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
112 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
113 --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
114 --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
116 2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
118 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).
120 2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
122 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
123 like "tail -2" more precisely.
124 (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
126 2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
128 * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.
130 2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
132 * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
133 (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
135 2005-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
137 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
138 now that we've decided to keep it.
139 (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).
141 2005-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
143 * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.
145 2005-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
147 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
148 "touch -" now touches standard output.
150 2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
152 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
154 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
156 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
157 the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
159 2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
161 * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
162 Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
163 "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
164 and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
165 it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
166 Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
167 (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
170 2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
172 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
173 "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
175 2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
177 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
178 to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
179 "priority" when niceness is intended.
181 2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
183 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
186 2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
188 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
189 brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
191 2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
193 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
196 2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
198 * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
199 Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
200 with status >1 on some hosts.
201 (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
203 2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
205 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
206 affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
208 2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
210 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
211 (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
212 binary mode are used now.
213 (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
214 causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
217 2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
219 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
220 (mv invocation): Likewise.
222 2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
224 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
226 2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
228 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
231 2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
233 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
234 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
236 2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
238 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
239 works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
240 Patch from Mark Melahn.
242 2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
244 * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
246 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
248 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
250 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
252 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
253 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
254 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
255 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
257 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
259 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
260 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
261 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
263 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
265 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
267 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
269 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
270 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
272 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
274 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
275 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
278 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
280 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
281 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
282 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
283 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
284 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
285 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
286 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
287 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
288 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
289 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
290 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
291 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
292 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
293 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
296 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
298 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
299 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
300 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
301 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
302 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
304 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
305 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
306 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
307 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
308 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
309 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
310 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
311 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
312 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
313 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
315 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
317 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
318 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
319 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
320 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
321 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
323 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
325 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
326 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
328 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
330 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
331 listed directories too, not just their contents.
333 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
335 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
336 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
338 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
340 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
341 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
342 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
343 to the usage messages.
344 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
347 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
349 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
351 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
353 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
355 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
357 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
358 may be treated as errors.
360 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
362 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
363 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
364 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
365 with POSIX. All uses changed.
366 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
367 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
368 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
369 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
370 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
371 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
372 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
373 Likewise for other changes.
374 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
375 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
377 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
379 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
380 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
381 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
382 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
383 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
384 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
385 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
386 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
387 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
388 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
389 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
390 For %e, use blank in example.
391 For %h, use @code for %b.
392 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
393 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
394 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
395 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
396 Mention field widths an modifiers.
397 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
399 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
401 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
402 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
404 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
406 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
407 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
408 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
410 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
412 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
413 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
414 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
415 by Stephane Chazelas.
417 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
419 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
420 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
422 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
424 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
425 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
427 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
429 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
431 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
433 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
434 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
436 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
438 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
440 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
442 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
443 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
445 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
447 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
448 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
449 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
450 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
451 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
453 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
455 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
456 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
457 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
458 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
459 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
461 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
462 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
464 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
465 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
467 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
469 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
471 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
473 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
474 seconds, and bytes per second.
476 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
478 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
479 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
482 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
484 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
486 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
487 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
489 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
491 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
493 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
494 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
495 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
496 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
498 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
500 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
502 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
504 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
506 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
507 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
508 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
509 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
510 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
511 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
513 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
515 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
516 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
518 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
520 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
521 index entries to proper paragraph.
523 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
525 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
526 the list of words to avoid.
528 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
530 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
531 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
532 with POSIX terminology.
533 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
534 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
536 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
537 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
538 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
539 spellings, or duplicates.
541 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
543 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
545 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
547 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
549 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
551 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
552 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
553 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
556 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
558 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
559 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
560 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
561 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
563 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
565 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
566 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
567 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
569 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
571 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
572 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
573 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
575 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
577 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
579 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
580 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
581 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
582 This program doesn't reorder options.
583 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
584 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
585 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
586 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
587 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
588 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
590 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
591 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
593 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
595 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
596 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
597 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
598 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
600 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
602 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
603 quoting strings for the shell.
605 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
607 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
608 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
609 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
611 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
613 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
614 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
615 rather than "tabstop".
616 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
617 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
618 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
619 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
621 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
623 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
624 group must always be preceded by separator.
625 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
626 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
627 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
628 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
631 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
633 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
634 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
636 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
638 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
639 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
640 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
642 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
644 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
646 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
648 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
649 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
650 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
651 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
652 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
653 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
654 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
655 "most shells" have one.
657 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
659 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
660 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
662 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
664 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
665 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
666 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
667 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
669 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
671 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
672 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
673 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
674 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
675 the language is similar for all.
677 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
679 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
680 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
681 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
682 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
683 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
684 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
685 interpretation of operands as options.
686 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
687 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
688 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
689 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
690 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
691 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
693 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
694 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
696 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
697 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
698 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
699 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
700 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
701 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
702 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
704 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
705 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
707 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
709 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
711 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
712 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
713 options from their operands.
714 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
715 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
716 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
717 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
718 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
719 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
720 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
721 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
722 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
723 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
725 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
727 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
728 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
730 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
732 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
733 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
735 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
736 that we have --no-target-directory.
737 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
739 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
742 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
744 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
745 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
747 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
749 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
750 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
751 work unconditionally.
753 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
755 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
757 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
759 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
760 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
762 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
764 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
765 does with byte/character ranges.
767 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
769 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
771 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
773 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
775 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
777 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
778 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
780 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
782 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
783 might write F before reading all the input.
785 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
787 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
788 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
790 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
792 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
793 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
794 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
795 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
796 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
797 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
798 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
799 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
800 than agglomerating them.
802 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
804 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
805 file system time stamp resolution into account.
807 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
808 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
810 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
812 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
814 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
816 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
817 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
819 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
821 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
823 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
825 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
827 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
829 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
831 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
833 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
835 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
836 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
838 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
840 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
841 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
843 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
845 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
846 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
848 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
850 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
851 `overfull hbox' warnings.
853 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
855 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
857 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
859 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
860 Describe use of fractional seconds.
861 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
862 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
863 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
864 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
866 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
867 get_date when talking about the function name.
868 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
869 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
870 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
871 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
872 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
874 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
875 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
876 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
877 Describe fractional-second syntax.
879 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
881 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
882 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
884 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
885 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
887 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
889 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
890 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
891 Reported by Arvind Autar.
893 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
894 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
896 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
897 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
898 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
900 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
902 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
903 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
904 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
906 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
908 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
909 currently evokes a warning.
911 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
913 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
914 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
915 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
916 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
919 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
921 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
922 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
924 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
926 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
927 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
929 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
931 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
932 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
933 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
935 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
937 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
938 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
939 (factor invocation): Add an example.
940 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
942 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
944 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
945 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
946 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
947 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
949 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
951 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
952 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
953 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
954 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
955 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
956 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
958 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
959 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
960 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
962 (nice invocation): Likewise.
964 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
966 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
967 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
969 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
971 Factor out some common options.
972 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
973 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
974 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
975 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
977 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
979 Document the exit status of each and every program.
980 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
981 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
982 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
983 (nice invocation): Likewise.
984 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
985 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
987 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
989 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
990 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
992 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
994 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
996 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
998 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
999 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
1001 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
1002 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
1003 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
1005 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1007 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
1008 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
1009 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
1011 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
1012 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
1014 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1016 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
1018 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
1019 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
1021 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1023 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
1024 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
1025 (chgrp invocation): And here.
1027 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1029 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
1031 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1033 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
1034 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1036 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1038 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
1039 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
1040 for signless offets.
1042 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1044 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
1046 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1048 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
1051 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1053 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
1054 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
1055 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
1057 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1059 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
1060 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
1061 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
1063 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1065 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
1066 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
1068 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1070 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
1071 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
1072 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
1074 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1076 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
1077 fuzz in relative units.
1079 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1081 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
1082 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
1084 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1086 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
1087 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
1089 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1091 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
1093 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1095 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
1098 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1100 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
1101 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
1102 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
1104 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1106 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
1107 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
1109 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1111 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
1112 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
1114 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
1115 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
1117 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1119 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
1120 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
1121 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
1123 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1125 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
1126 to the related examples.
1127 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
1128 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1130 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1132 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
1133 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
1134 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
1136 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1138 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
1140 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1142 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
1143 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
1144 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
1145 consistent with POSIX.
1146 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
1147 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
1148 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
1150 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1152 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
1153 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
1154 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
1156 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1158 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
1159 It uses standard exit codes.
1160 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
1161 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
1163 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1165 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
1166 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
1167 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
1168 \0NNN in the %b operand.
1170 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1172 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
1173 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
1175 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
1177 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1179 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
1180 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
1181 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
1183 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1185 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
1186 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
1188 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
1189 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
1191 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1193 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
1195 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
1197 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1199 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
1200 is now the default for non-regular files.
1202 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1204 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
1205 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
1207 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1209 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
1210 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
1211 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
1213 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
1215 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
1217 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
1218 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
1219 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
1220 of @code for program names.
1222 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1224 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
1225 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
1227 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1229 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
1232 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
1233 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
1234 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
1235 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
1236 Mostly from Karl Berry.
1238 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1240 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
1241 --output-delimiter=STR.
1243 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1245 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1246 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1248 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1249 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1251 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1254 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1256 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1257 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1259 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1261 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1262 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1263 and somewhat contradictory.
1265 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1266 formatting): Undo last change.
1268 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1270 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1271 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1272 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1273 specified on the command line.
1275 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1277 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1279 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1281 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1282 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1284 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1286 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1287 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1289 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1291 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1292 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1293 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1295 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1297 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1298 change \0x prefix to \x.
1299 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1301 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1303 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1304 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1306 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1307 This affects display format as well as block size.
1308 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1309 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1310 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1311 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1312 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1313 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1314 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1315 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1318 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1320 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1321 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1322 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1323 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1325 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1327 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1328 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1330 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1332 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1334 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1336 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1338 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1339 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1340 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1341 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1343 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1345 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1348 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1350 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1351 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1352 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1354 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1356 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1357 From Martin Michlmayr.
1359 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1361 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1362 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1364 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1366 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1368 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1370 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1372 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1373 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1375 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1377 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1378 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1380 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1382 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1384 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1386 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1388 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1390 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1391 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1393 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1395 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1398 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1400 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1401 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1403 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1405 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1407 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1409 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1410 Document POSIX signals better.
1412 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1414 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1415 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1417 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1419 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1421 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1423 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1424 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1426 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1428 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1429 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1430 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1432 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1434 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1435 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1438 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1440 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1441 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1444 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1445 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1446 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1447 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1448 links unless you also specify -P.
1450 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1452 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1453 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1455 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1457 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1458 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1460 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1462 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1463 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1465 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1467 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1468 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1470 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1472 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1473 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1475 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1477 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1478 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1479 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1481 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1483 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1484 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1486 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1488 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1489 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1491 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1493 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1494 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1495 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1496 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1498 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1500 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1502 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1504 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1506 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1508 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1509 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1511 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1513 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1514 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1515 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1516 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1518 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1520 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1522 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1524 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1525 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1526 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1527 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1528 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1529 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1531 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1533 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1534 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1536 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1538 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1539 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1541 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1543 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1544 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1546 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1548 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1551 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1553 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1554 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1555 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1557 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1560 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1561 and -o or --operating-system.
1562 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1563 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1564 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1565 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1566 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1568 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1570 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1573 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1575 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1578 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1580 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1582 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1584 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1587 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1589 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1592 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1594 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1595 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1597 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1598 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1600 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1601 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1603 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1605 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1607 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1608 does when given no arguments.
1610 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1612 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1614 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1615 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1617 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.