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authorKevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>2012-04-18 00:38:04 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-05-08 02:18:39 +0100
commitaa078afcf9828344697ef0469272657ac12a30b1 (patch)
tree85ee107a3d3e835ed991d5b8904907505c685912 /NEWS
parentfedebc59a040a7e34dce5c987b7f6fcf2cefa904 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-aa078afcf9828344697ef0469272657ac12a30b1.tar.xz
maint: fix common spelling errors
These were identified using: https://github.com/lyda/misspell-check executed like: git ls-files | misspellings -f - * src/cat.c: Correct a spelling error. * src/comm.c: Likewise. * src/expr.c: Likewise. * src/pr.c: Likewise. * src/tac.c: Likewise. * src/test.c: Likewise. * src/ChangeLog-2005: Likewise. * src/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * src/NEWS: Likewise. * src/doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise. * src/lib/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * src/man/help2man: Likewise. * src/old/fileutils/ChangeLog-1997: Likewise. * src/old/fileutils/NEWS: Likewise. * src/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog.0: Likewise. * src/old/textutils/ChangeLog: Likewise. * src/tests/misc/comm: Likewise. * src/tests/misc/uniq: Likewise. * src/tests/mv/dir2dir: Likewise. * src/cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): update with `make update-NEWS-hash`
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@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as
file. Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX
- rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a
+ rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceding name is a
directory or a symlink to a directory.
** Changes in behavior
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Changes in behavior
shred, sort, shuf: now use an internal pseudorandom generator by default.
- This is mainly noticable in shred where the 3 random passes it does by
+ This is mainly noticeable in shred where the 3 random passes it does by
default should proceed at the speed of the disk. Previously /dev/urandom
was used if available, which is relatively slow on GNU/Linux systems.
@@ -3368,7 +3368,7 @@ point at which the packages merged to form the coreutils:
* Any time style can be preceded by "posix-"; this causes "ls" to
use traditional timestamp format when in the POSIX locale.
* The default time style is now posix-long-iso instead of posix-iso.
- Set TIME_STYLE="posix-iso" to revert to the behavior of 4.1.1 thru 4.1.9.
+ Set TIME_STYLE="posix-iso" to revert to the behavior of 4.1.1 through 4.1.9.
* 'rm dangling-symlink' doesn't prompt [introduced in 4.1.9]
* stat: remove support for --secure/-s option and related %S and %C format specs
* stat: rename --link/-l to --dereference/-L.