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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. |