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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2014-09-08 12:51:14 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2014-09-08 20:48:44 -0700
commit72e470b9b5af77bcfd90ac175ed285877837ba20 (patch)
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parent943ca00bba40c50ce95a2ff224998175bcb18ed4 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-72e470b9b5af77bcfd90ac175ed285877837ba20.tar.xz
doc: rename "coreutils invocation" to "Multi-call invocation"
This supports longstanding shell commands like 'info coreutils "touch invocation"'. Problem reported by Vincent Lefevre via Bob Proulx in: http://bugs.gnu.org/18428 * doc/coreutils.texi (Multi-call invocation): Rename from "coreutils invocation".
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 14ee3b0ba..fb083f096 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
* chroot: (coreutils)chroot invocation. Specify the root directory.
* cksum: (coreutils)cksum invocation. Print POSIX CRC checksum.
* comm: (coreutils)comm invocation. Compare sorted files by line.
-* coreutils: (coreutils)coreutils invocation. Multi-call program.
+* coreutils: (coreutils)Multi-call invocation. Multi-call program.
* cp: (coreutils)cp invocation. Copy files.
* csplit: (coreutils)csplit invocation. Split by context.
* cut: (coreutils)cut invocation. Print selected parts of lines.
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Common Options
* Traversing symlinks:: Traversing symlinks to directories
* Treating / specially:: Treating / specially
* Standards conformance:: Standards conformance
-* coreutils invocation:: Multi-call binary invocation
+* Multi-call invocation:: Multi-call program invocation
Output of entire files
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ name.
* Treating / specially:: --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
* Special built-in utilities:: @command{break}, @command{:}, @dots{}
* Standards conformance:: Conformance to the POSIX standard.
-* coreutils invocation:: Multi-call binary invocation.
+* Multi-call invocation:: Multi-call program invocation.
@end menu
@@ -1500,16 +1500,19 @@ that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses @samp{sort +1}
or @samp{tail +10}, you can work around any compatibility problems by setting
@samp{_POSIX2_VERSION=199209} in your environment.
-@node coreutils invocation
-@section @command{coreutils}: Multi-call binary
+@c This node is named "Multi-call invocation", not the usual
+@c "coreutils invocation", so that shell commands like
+@c 'info coreutils "touch invocation"' work as expected.
+@node Multi-call invocation
+@section @command{coreutils}: Multi-call program
@pindex multicall
@cindex combined
-@cindex calling combined multi-call binary
+@cindex calling combined multi-call program
-@command{coreutils} invokes an individual utility, either
-implicitly selected by the last component of @samp{argv[0]},
-or by explicitly calling @command{coreutils} with the
+The @command{coreutils} command invokes an individual utility, either
+implicitly selected by the last component of the name used to invoke
+@command{coreutils}, or explicitly with the
@option{--coreutils-prog} option. Synopsis:
@example