1 2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
5 * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
6 affects only file permission bits.
8 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
10 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
13 2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
15 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
16 [--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf.
17 Sort option descriptions.
19 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
21 * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
22 (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
24 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
26 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
27 --random-sort, and use a simpler example.
29 2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
31 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.
33 2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
35 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.
37 2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
39 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
42 2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
44 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
46 (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
47 option and at most one file.
49 2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
51 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
52 enumerated list and fix a typo. From Aaron Hawley.
54 2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
56 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
57 --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
58 --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
60 2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
62 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).
64 2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
66 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
67 like "tail -2" more precisely.
68 (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
70 2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
72 * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.
74 2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
76 * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
77 (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
79 2005-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
81 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
82 now that we've decided to keep it.
83 (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).
85 2005-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
87 * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.
89 2005-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
91 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
92 "touch -" now touches standard output.
94 2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
96 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
98 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
100 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
101 the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
103 2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
105 * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
106 Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
107 "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
108 and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
109 it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
110 Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
111 (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
114 2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
116 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
117 "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
119 2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
121 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
122 to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
123 "priority" when niceness is intended.
125 2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
127 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
130 2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
132 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
133 brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
135 2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
137 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
140 2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
142 * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
143 Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
144 with status >1 on some hosts.
145 (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
147 2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
149 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
150 affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
152 2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
154 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
155 (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
156 binary mode are used now.
157 (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
158 causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
161 2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
163 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
164 (mv invocation): Likewise.
166 2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
168 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
170 2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
172 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
175 2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
177 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
178 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
180 2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
182 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
183 works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
184 Patch from Mark Melahn.
186 2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
188 * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
190 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
192 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
194 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
196 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
197 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
198 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
199 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
201 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
203 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
204 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
205 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
207 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
209 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
211 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
213 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
214 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
216 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
218 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
219 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
222 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
224 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
225 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
226 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
227 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
228 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
229 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
230 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
231 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
232 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
233 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
234 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
235 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
236 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
237 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
240 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
242 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
243 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
244 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
245 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
246 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
248 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
249 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
250 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
251 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
252 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
253 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
254 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
255 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
256 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
257 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
259 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
261 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
262 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
263 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
264 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
265 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
267 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
269 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
270 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
272 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
274 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
275 listed directories too, not just their contents.
277 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
279 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
280 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
282 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
284 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
285 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
286 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
287 to the usage messages.
288 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
291 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
293 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
295 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
297 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
299 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
301 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
302 may be treated as errors.
304 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
306 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
307 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
308 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
309 with POSIX. All uses changed.
310 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
311 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
312 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
313 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
314 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
315 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
316 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
317 Likewise for other changes.
318 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
319 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
321 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
323 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
324 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
325 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
326 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
327 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
328 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
329 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
330 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
331 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
332 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
333 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
334 For %e, use blank in example.
335 For %h, use @code for %b.
336 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
337 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
338 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
339 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
340 Mention field widths an modifiers.
341 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
343 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
345 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
346 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
348 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
350 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
351 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
352 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
354 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
356 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
357 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
358 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
359 by Stephane Chazelas.
361 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
363 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
364 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
366 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
368 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
369 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
371 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
373 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
375 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
377 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
378 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
380 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
382 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
384 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
386 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
387 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
389 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
391 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
392 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
393 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
394 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
395 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
397 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
399 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
400 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
401 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
402 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
403 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
405 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
406 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
408 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
409 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
411 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
413 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
415 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
417 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
418 seconds, and bytes per second.
420 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
422 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
423 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
426 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
428 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
430 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
431 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
433 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
435 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
437 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
438 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
439 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
440 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
442 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
444 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
446 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
448 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
450 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
451 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
452 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
453 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
454 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
455 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
457 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
459 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
460 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
462 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
464 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
465 index entries to proper paragraph.
467 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
469 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
470 the list of words to avoid.
472 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
474 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
475 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
476 with POSIX terminology.
477 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
478 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
480 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
481 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
482 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
483 spellings, or duplicates.
485 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
487 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
489 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
491 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
493 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
495 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
496 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
497 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
500 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
502 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
503 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
504 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
505 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
507 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
509 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
510 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
511 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
513 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
515 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
516 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
517 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
519 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
521 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
523 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
524 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
525 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
526 This program doesn't reorder options.
527 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
528 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
529 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
530 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
531 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
532 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
534 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
535 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
537 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
539 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
540 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
541 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
542 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
544 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
546 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
547 quoting strings for the shell.
549 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
551 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
552 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
553 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
555 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
557 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
558 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
559 rather than "tabstop".
560 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
561 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
562 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
563 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
565 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
567 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
568 group must always be preceded by separator.
569 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
570 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
571 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
572 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
575 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
577 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
578 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
580 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
582 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
583 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
584 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
586 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
588 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
590 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
592 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
593 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
594 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
595 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
596 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
597 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
598 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
599 "most shells" have one.
601 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
603 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
604 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
606 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
608 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
609 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
610 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
611 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
613 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
615 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
616 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
617 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
618 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
619 the language is similar for all.
621 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
623 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
624 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
625 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
626 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
627 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
628 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
629 interpretation of operands as options.
630 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
631 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
632 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
633 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
634 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
635 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
637 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
638 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
640 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
641 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
642 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
643 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
644 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
645 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
646 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
648 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
649 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
651 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
653 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
655 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
656 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
657 options from their operands.
658 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
659 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
660 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
661 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
662 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
663 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
664 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
665 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
666 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
667 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
669 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
671 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
672 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
674 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
676 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
677 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
679 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
680 that we have --no-target-directory.
681 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
683 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
686 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
688 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
689 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
691 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
693 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
694 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
695 work unconditionally.
697 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
699 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
701 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
703 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
704 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
706 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
708 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
709 does with byte/character ranges.
711 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
713 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
715 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
717 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
719 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
721 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
722 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
724 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
726 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
727 might write F before reading all the input.
729 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
731 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
732 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
734 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
736 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
737 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
738 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
739 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
740 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
741 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
742 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
743 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
744 than agglomerating them.
746 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
748 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
749 file system time stamp resolution into account.
751 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
752 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
754 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
756 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
758 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
760 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
761 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
763 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
765 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
767 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
769 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
771 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
773 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
775 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
777 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
779 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
780 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
782 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
784 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
785 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
787 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
789 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
790 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
792 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
794 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
795 `overfull hbox' warnings.
797 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
799 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
801 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
803 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
804 Describe use of fractional seconds.
805 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
806 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
807 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
808 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
810 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
811 get_date when talking about the function name.
812 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
813 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
814 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
815 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
816 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
818 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
819 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
820 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
821 Describe fractional-second syntax.
823 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
825 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
826 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
828 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
829 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
831 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
833 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
834 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
835 Reported by Arvind Autar.
837 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
838 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
840 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
841 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
842 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
844 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
846 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
847 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
848 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
850 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
852 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
853 currently evokes a warning.
855 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
857 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
858 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
859 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
860 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
863 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
865 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
866 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
868 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
870 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
871 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
873 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
875 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
876 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
877 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
879 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
881 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
882 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
883 (factor invocation): Add an example.
884 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
886 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
888 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
889 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
890 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
891 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
893 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
895 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
896 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
897 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
898 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
899 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
900 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
902 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
903 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
904 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
906 (nice invocation): Likewise.
908 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
910 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
911 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
913 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
915 Factor out some common options.
916 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
917 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
918 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
919 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
921 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
923 Document the exit status of each and every program.
924 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
925 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
926 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
927 (nice invocation): Likewise.
928 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
929 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
931 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
933 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
934 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
936 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
938 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
940 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
942 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
943 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
945 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
946 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
947 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
949 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
951 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
952 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
953 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
955 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
956 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
958 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
960 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
962 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
963 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
965 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
967 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
968 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
969 (chgrp invocation): And here.
971 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
973 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
975 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
977 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
978 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
980 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
982 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
983 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
986 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
988 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
990 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
992 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
995 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
997 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
998 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
999 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
1001 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1003 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
1004 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
1005 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
1007 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1009 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
1010 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
1012 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1014 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
1015 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
1016 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
1018 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1020 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
1021 fuzz in relative units.
1023 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1025 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
1026 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
1028 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1030 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
1031 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
1033 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1035 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
1037 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1039 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
1042 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1044 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
1045 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
1046 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
1048 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1050 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
1051 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
1053 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1055 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
1056 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
1058 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
1059 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
1061 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1063 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
1064 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
1065 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
1067 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1069 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
1070 to the related examples.
1071 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
1072 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1074 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1076 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
1077 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
1078 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
1080 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1082 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
1084 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1086 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
1087 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
1088 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
1089 consistent with POSIX.
1090 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
1091 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
1092 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
1094 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1096 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
1097 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
1098 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
1100 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1102 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
1103 It uses standard exit codes.
1104 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
1105 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
1107 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1109 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
1110 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
1111 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
1112 \0NNN in the %b operand.
1114 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1116 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
1117 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
1119 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
1121 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1123 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
1124 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
1125 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
1127 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1129 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
1130 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
1132 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
1133 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
1135 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1137 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
1139 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
1141 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1143 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
1144 is now the default for non-regular files.
1146 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1148 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
1149 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
1151 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1153 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
1154 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
1155 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
1157 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
1159 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
1161 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
1162 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
1163 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
1164 of @code for program names.
1166 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1168 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
1169 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
1171 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1173 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
1176 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
1177 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
1178 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
1179 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
1180 Mostly from Karl Berry.
1182 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1184 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
1185 --output-delimiter=STR.
1187 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1189 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1190 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1192 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1193 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1195 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1198 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1200 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1201 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1203 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1205 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1206 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1207 and somewhat contradictory.
1209 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1210 formatting): Undo last change.
1212 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1214 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1215 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1216 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1217 specified on the command line.
1219 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1221 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1223 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1225 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1226 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1228 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1230 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1231 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1233 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1235 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1236 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1237 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1239 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1241 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1242 change \0x prefix to \x.
1243 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1245 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1247 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1248 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1250 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1251 This affects display format as well as block size.
1252 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1253 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1254 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1255 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1256 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1257 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1258 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1259 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1262 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1264 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1265 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1266 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1267 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1269 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1271 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1272 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1274 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1276 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1278 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1280 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1282 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1283 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1284 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1285 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1287 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1289 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1292 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1294 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1295 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1296 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1298 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1300 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1301 From Martin Michlmayr.
1303 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1305 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1306 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1308 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1310 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1312 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1314 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1316 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1317 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1319 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1321 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1322 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1324 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1326 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1328 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1330 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1332 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1334 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1335 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1337 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1339 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1342 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1344 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1345 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1347 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1349 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1351 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1353 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1354 Document POSIX signals better.
1356 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1358 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1359 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1361 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1363 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1365 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1367 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1368 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1370 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1372 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1373 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1374 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1376 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1378 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1379 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1382 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1384 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1385 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1388 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1389 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1390 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1391 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1392 links unless you also specify -P.
1394 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1396 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1397 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1399 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1401 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1402 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1404 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1406 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1407 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1409 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1411 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1412 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1414 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1416 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1417 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1419 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1421 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1422 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1423 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1425 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1427 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1428 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1430 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1432 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1433 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1435 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1437 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1438 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1439 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1440 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1442 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1444 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1446 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1448 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1450 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1452 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1453 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1455 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1457 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1458 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1459 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1460 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1462 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1464 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1466 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1468 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1469 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1470 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1471 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1472 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1473 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1475 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1477 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1478 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1480 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1482 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1483 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1485 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1487 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1488 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1490 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1492 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1495 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1497 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1498 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1499 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1501 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1504 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1505 and -o or --operating-system.
1506 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1507 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1508 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1509 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1510 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1512 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1514 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1517 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1519 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1522 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1524 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1526 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1528 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1531 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1533 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1536 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1538 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1539 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1541 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1542 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1544 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1545 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1547 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1549 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1551 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1552 does when given no arguments.
1554 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1556 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1558 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1559 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1561 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.