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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-15 21:56:15 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-15 21:56:15 +0000 |
commit | 75e49a2b1735851dae580b466928fe797ee7440f (patch) | |
tree | 76e5ebc304124c237425d05f7ec28ffd9e80ae2b /doc/coreutils.texi | |
parent | 1f3a9c7888be4ef2df0ff9683dddbfb5655e7e78 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-75e49a2b1735851dae580b466928fe797ee7440f.tar.xz |
Remove special cases for POSIXLY_CORRECT when POSIX allows the GNU behavior.
(pr invocation, unlink invocation): Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8612c2b14..a09321503 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1952,10 +1952,11 @@ e.g., @option{--date-format="Monday morning"}. @vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT @vindex LC_TIME -If the @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} environment variable is not set, the date +Normally the date format defaults to @samp{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M} (for example, @samp{2001-12-04 -23:59}); otherwise, the format depends on the @env{LC_TIME} locale -category, with the default being @samp{%b %e %H:%M %Y} (for example, +23:59}); but if the @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} environment variable is set +and the @env{LC_TIME} locale category specifies the @acronym{POSIX} +locale, the default is @samp{%b %e %H:%M %Y} (for example, @samp{Dec@ @ 4 23:59 2001}. @item -e[@var{in-tabchar}[@var{in-tabwidth}]] @@ -7768,12 +7769,9 @@ On some systems @code{unlink} can be used to delete the name of a directory. On others, it can be used that way only by a privileged user. In the GNU system @code{unlink} can never delete the name of a directory. -@vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT -By default, @command{unlink} honors the @option{--help} and @option{--version} -options. That makes it a little harder to remove files named -@option{--help} and @option{--version}, so when the environment variable -@env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} is set, @command{unlink} treats such a command line -arguments not as an option, but as an operand. +The @command{unlink} command honors the @option{--help} and +@option{--version} options. To remove a file whose name begins with +@samp{-}, prefix the name with @samp{./}, e.g., @samp{unlink ./--help}. @exitstatus |