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diff --git a/doc/sh-utils.texi b/doc/sh-utils.texi index 525901394..9d421a711 100644 --- a/doc/sh-utils.texi +++ b/doc/sh-utils.texi @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY @ifinfo This file documents the GNU shell utilities. -Copyright (C) 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ by the Foundation. @page @vskip 0pt plus 1filll -Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ independent way. For example, a string containing the Euro currency symbol $ /usr/local/bin/printf '\u20AC 14.95' @end example +@noindent will be output correctly in all locales supporting the Euro symbol (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, and others). Similarly, a Chinese string @@ -357,18 +358,19 @@ will be output correctly in all locales supporting the Euro symbol $ /usr/local/bin/printf '\u4e2d\u6587' @end example -will be output correctly in all chinese locales (GB2312, BIG5, UTF-8, etc). +@noindent +will be output correctly in all Chinese locales (GB2312, BIG5, UTF-8, etc). Note that in these examples, the full pathname of @code{printf} has been given, to distinguish it from the GNU @code{bash} builtin function @code{printf}. -For larger strings, you don't need to look up the hexadecimal code values of -each character one by one. ASCII characters mixed with \u escape sequences -is also known as the JAVA source file encoding. You can use GNU recode 3.5c -(or newer) to convert strings to this encoding. Here is how to convert a -piece of text into a shell script which will output this text in a locale- -independent way: +For larger strings, you don't need to look up the hexadecimal code +values of each character one by one. ASCII characters mixed with \u +escape sequences is also known as the JAVA source file encoding. You can +use GNU recode 3.5c (or newer) to convert strings to this encoding. Here +is how to convert a piece of text into a shell script which will output +this text in a locale-independent way: @smallexample $ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.big5 /usr/local/bin/printf \ @@ -2499,7 +2501,7 @@ time of @var{file}, instead of the current time and date. @itemx --set=@var{datestr} @opindex -s @opindex --set -Set the time and date to @var{datestr}, See @samp{-d} above. +Set the time and date to @var{datestr}. See @samp{-d} above. @item -u @itemx --utc @@ -2959,7 +2961,7 @@ nohup @var{command} [@var{arg}]@dots{} @flindex nohup.out @code{nohup} increases the scheduling priority of @var{command} by 5, so -it has a slightly smaller change to run. If standard output is a terminal, +it has a slightly smaller chance to run. If standard output is a terminal, it and standard error are redirected so that they are appended to the file @file{nohup.out}; if that cannot be written to, they are appended to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}. If that cannot be written to, the @@ -3338,11 +3340,11 @@ $ seq -s' ' 0 .1 .3 0 0.1 0.2 @end example -But doesn't happen on most systems because @code{seq} is implemented using -binary floating point arithmetic (via the C @code{double} type) -- which -means some decimal numbers like @code{.1} cannot be represented exactly. -That in turn means some nonintuitive conditions like @code{.1 * 3 > .3} -will end up being true. +But that doesn't happen on most systems because @code{seq} is +implemented using binary floating point arithmetic (via the C +@code{double} type) -- which means some decimal numbers like @code{.1} +cannot be represented exactly. That in turn means some nonintuitive +conditions like @code{.1 * 3 > .3} will end up being true. To work around that in the above example, use a slightly larger number as the @var{last} value: |