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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 |