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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1994-11-04 14:04:03 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1994-11-04 14:04:03 +0000
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-rw-r--r--doc/sh-utils.texi13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi
index 27967a2f7..e6d01a452 100644
--- a/doc/sh-utils.texi
+++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ by the Foundation.
@cindex utilities for shell programming
This manual minimally documents version @value{VERSION} of the GNU shell
-utilities. See the introduction for caveats.
+utilities.
@menu
* Introduction:: Caveats, overview, and authors.
@@ -161,17 +161,18 @@ a great extent). Others are occasionally useful interactively.
@cindex POSIX.2
The GNU shell utilities are mostly compatible with the POSIX.2 standard.
+@cindex bugs, reporting
Please report bugs to @samp{bug-gnu-utils@@prep.ai.mit.edu}. Remember
to include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and
any other information needed to reproduce the bug. @xref{Bugs, , , gcc,
GNU CC}.
+@cindex history
This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which
were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering.
-@c This is odd -- looks like a bug in makeinfo.
@c If the following space before `@value' is removed, makeinfo
@c fails to substitute the value for Francois. Instead, it reports
-@c `F{No Value For "rancois"}...'.
+@c `F{No Value For "rancois"}...'. This is a bug in makeinfo.
@c So please don't remove that leading space for now.
@value{Francois} Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.
Karl Berry did the indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.
@@ -186,10 +187,10 @@ overall process.
Certain options are available in all these programs. Rather than
writing identical descriptions for each of the programs, they are
-described here. In fact, every GNU program accepts (or should accept)
-these options.
+described here. (In fact, every GNU program accepts (or should accept)
+these options.)
-Many shell utilities take arbitrary strings as arguments. In those
+Many of these programs take arbitrary strings as arguments. In those
cases, @samp{--help} and @samp{--version} are taken as these options
only if there is one and exactly one command line argument.