maint: fix incorrect spellings etc

* NEWS: Use a standard version specification.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Fix incorrect grammar.
* src/df.c: Update a stale comment.
* src/copy.c: Fix incorrect spellings.
* src/factor.c: Likewise.
* src/ls.c: Likewise.
* src/pr.c: Likewise.
* src/relpath.c: Likewise.
* src/shred.c: Likewise.
* src/sort.c: Likewise.
* src/split.c: Likewise.
* src/stdbuf.c: Likewise.
* tests/misc/seq-precision.sh: Likewise.

10 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 6771bb53b..d1644e7ff 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ should_dereference (const struct cp_options *x, bool command_line_arg)
 /* Copy the file SRC_NAME to the file DST_NAME.  The files may be of
    any type.  NEW_DST should be true if the file DST_NAME cannot
    exist because its parent directory was just created; NEW_DST should
-   be false if DST_NAME might already exist.  A nonnull PARENT describes the
+   be false if DST_NAME might already exist.  A non-null PARENT describes the
    parent directory.  ANCESTORS points to a linked, null terminated list of
    devices and inodes of parent directories of SRC_NAME.  COMMAND_LINE_ARG
    is true iff SRC_NAME was specified on the command line.
@@ -2375,7 +2375,7 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
          If this happens to you, please do the following and send the output
          to the bug-reporting address (e.g., in the output of cp --help):
            touch k; perl -e 'rename "k","/tmp/k" or print "$!(",$!+0,")\n"'
-         where your current directory is on one partion and /tmp is the other.
+         where your current directory is on one partition and /tmp is the other.
          Also, please try to find the E* errno macro name corresponding to
          the diagnostic and parenthesized integer, and include that in your
          e-mail.  One way to do that is to run a command like this
diff --git a/src/df.c b/src/df.c
index 250a570b4..c1c1e6831 100644
--- a/src/df.c
+++ b/src/df.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 /* Written by David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
-   --human-readable and --megabyte options added by lm@sgi.com.
+   --human-readable option added by lm@sgi.com.
    --si and large file support added by eggert@twinsun.com.  */
 
 #include <config.h>
diff --git a/src/factor.c b/src/factor.c
index ee578bfe5..b195c0545 100644
--- a/src/factor.c
+++ b/src/factor.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
     Using GMP is optional.  Define HAVE_GMP to make this code include GMP
     factoring code.  The GMP factoring code is based on GMP's demos/factorize.c
-    (last synched 2012-09-07).  The GMP-based factoring code will stay in GMP
+    (last synced 2012-09-07).  The GMP-based factoring code will stay in GMP
     factoring code even if numbers get small enough for using the two-word
     code.
 
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 2ae548d99..52750b0b1 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ static size_t dired_pos;
       }									\
     while (0)
 
-/* With --dired, store pairs of beginning and ending indices of filenames.  */
+/* With --dired, store pairs of beginning and ending indices of file names.  */
 static struct obstack dired_obstack;
 
 /* With --dired, store pairs of beginning and ending indices of any
@@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ get_funky_string (char **dest, const char **src, bool equals_end,
               state = ST_END;	/* End of string */
               break;
             case '\\':
-              state = ST_BACKSLASH; /* Backslash scape sequence */
+              state = ST_BACKSLASH; /* Backslash escape sequence */
               ++p;
               break;
             case '^':
@@ -3478,7 +3478,7 @@ cmp_name (struct fileinfo const *a, struct fileinfo const *b,
 }
 
 /* Compare file extensions.  Files with no extension are 'smallest'.
-   If extensions are the same, compare by filenames instead.  */
+   If extensions are the same, compare by file names instead.  */
 
 static inline int
 cmp_extension (struct fileinfo const *a, struct fileinfo const *b,
diff --git a/src/pr.c b/src/pr.c
index c54857bb6..5a71f2ae4 100644
--- a/src/pr.c
+++ b/src/pr.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ static size_t buff_allocated;
    we do column balancing on the last page. */
 static int *line_vector;
 
-/* Array of horizonal positions.
+/* Array of horizontal positions.
    For each line in line_vector, end_vector[line] is the horizontal
    position we are in after printing that line.  We keep track of this
    so that we know how much we need to pad to prepare for the next
diff --git a/src/relpath.c b/src/relpath.c
index 5ba4b9c10..44b173888 100644
--- a/src/relpath.c
+++ b/src/relpath.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ buffer_or_output (const char* str, char **pbuf, size_t *plen)
 }
 
 /* Output the relative representation if possible.
-   If BUF is non NULL, write to that buffer rather than to stdout.  */
+   If BUF is non-NULL, write to that buffer rather than to stdout.  */
 bool
 relpath (const char *can_fname, const char *can_reldir, char *buf, size_t len)
 {
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c
index 08e212a23..a7cfc6b78 100644
--- a/src/shred.c
+++ b/src/shred.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ dopass (int fd, struct stat const *st, char const *qname, off_t *sizep,
         unsigned long int k, unsigned long int n)
 {
   off_t size = *sizep;
-  off_t offset;			/* Current file posiiton */
+  off_t offset;			/* Current file position */
   time_t thresh IF_LINT ( = 0);	/* Time to maybe print next status update */
   time_t now = 0;		/* Current time */
   size_t lim;			/* Amount of data to try writing */
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 399b9644d..cf29727de 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ struct month
 struct merge_node
 {
   struct line *lo;              /* Lines to merge from LO child node. */
-  struct line *hi;              /* Lines to merge from HI child ndoe. */
+  struct line *hi;              /* Lines to merge from HI child node. */
   struct line *end_lo;          /* End of available lines from LO. */
   struct line *end_hi;          /* End of available lines from HI. */
   struct line **dest;           /* Pointer to destination of merge. */
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ struct sortfile
   /* The file's name.  */
   char const *name;
 
-  /* Nonnull if this is a temporary file, in which case NAME == TEMP->name.  */
+  /* Non-null if this is a temporary file, in which case NAME == TEMP->name.  */
   struct tempnode *temp;
 };
 
@@ -2736,7 +2736,7 @@ compare (struct line const *a, struct line const *b)
 }
 
 /* Write LINE to output stream FP; the output file's name is
-   OUTPUT_FILE if OUTPUT_FILE is nonnull, and is the standard output
+   OUTPUT_FILE if OUTPUT_FILE is non-null, and is the standard output
    otherwise.  If debugging is enabled and FP is standard output,
    append some debugging information.  */
 
diff --git a/src/split.c b/src/split.c
index 301f4baa6..ef61c6933 100644
--- a/src/split.c
+++ b/src/split.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
           if (split_type != type_undef)
             FAIL_ONLY_ONE_WAY ();
           split_type = type_bytes;
-          /* Limit to OFF_T_MAX, becaue if input is a pipe, we could get more
+          /* Limit to OFF_T_MAX, because if input is a pipe, we could get more
              data than is possible to write to a single file, so indicate that
              immediately rather than having possibly future invocations fail. */
           n_units = xdectoumax (optarg, 1, OFF_T_MAX, multipliers,
diff --git a/src/stdbuf.c b/src/stdbuf.c
index 116619d7a..31061e785 100644
--- a/src/stdbuf.c
+++ b/src/stdbuf.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
      stdbuf is running from.  */
   set_program_path (program_name);
   if (!program_path)
-    program_path = xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR);  /* Need to init to non NULL.  */
+    program_path = xstrdup (PKGLIBDIR);  /* Need to init to non-NULL.  */
   set_LD_PRELOAD ();
   free (program_path);