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2005-08-12(cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove squareJim Meyering
brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
2005-07-19(md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple FILE inputs.Paul Eggert
2005-07-18(false invocation):Paul Eggert
Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits with status >1 on some hosts. (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
2005-07-15(nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longerPaul Eggert
affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
2005-07-11(cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary optionPaul Eggert
(available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and binary mode are used now. (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are used now.
2005-07-03(cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.Jim Meyering
(mv invocation): Likewise.
2005-06-24(cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.Jim Meyering
2005-06-23(ls invocation): Fix typo: --time=use isPaul Eggert
equivalent to --time=atime, not --time=ctime. (ls invocation, du invocation): Fix typo: --time-style=long-iso is equivalent to a time style with a leading "+". (du invocation): --last-time is now --time. --time-style no longer implies --time. The locale and posix- stuff now works only for TIME_STYLE, not for --time-style. Give equivalent format for --time-style=iso.
2005-06-23(du invocation): New options --last-time and --time-style.Jim Meyering
2005-06-19(ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.Jim Meyering
2005-06-19use `file system', not `filesystem'Jim Meyering
2005-06-17(shred invocation): Clarify that shredJim Meyering
works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode. Patch from Mark Melahn.
2005-06-16(Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).Jim Meyering
2005-06-10Remove the extra spaces in "ls -l" output.Paul Eggert
2005-06-09Change filesystems to `file systems'.Jim Meyering
2005-06-07(ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.Jim Meyering
2005-06-02(readlink invocation): "path component" ->Paul Eggert
"component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
2005-05-26nohup now redirects a tty stdin to an unreadable fd instead of closing it.Paul Eggert
2005-05-12(nohup invocation): nohup now closes stdin if it is a terminal, unlessPaul Eggert
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
2005-05-06(dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".Paul Eggert
2005-05-04(chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if itsPaul Eggert
behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
2005-05-02(ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directoryPaul Eggert
renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls --directory.
2005-04-29(ls invocation): ls -p now marks only directories. New optionPaul Eggert
--indicator-style=directory equivalent to -p.
2005-04-26(Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,Paul Eggert
since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version. (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N]. (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING. (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM. (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES. (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N. (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB. (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT. (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option. (uniq invocation): Likewise. (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version. (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options. (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
2005-04-24* coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 forPaul Eggert
the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams. (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): The umask does not affect the point of departure.
2005-04-12For consistency, standardize on "user ID" ratherPaul Eggert
than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
2005-04-09(rm invocation): Say that --recursive removesJim Meyering
listed directories too, not just their contents.
2005-04-09(dd invocation): Document the distinction betweenPaul Eggert
INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
2005-04-05(cat invocation, chown invocation)Paul Eggert
(chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation): Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added to the usage messages. (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above, for consistency.
2005-03-26Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.Paul Eggert
2005-03-19(nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.Paul Eggert
2005-03-11(Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestampsPaul Eggert
may be treated as errors.
2005-03-08(date invocation): Use an example that makes itPaul Eggert
clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month. Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent with POSIX. All uses changed. Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists. (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives. Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code. Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions. Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges). Say why %F is preferred for dates. (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives. Likewise for other changes. (Padding and other flags): Correct the description. Document #. Give an example for %9B.
2005-02-24(Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P arePaul Eggert
GNU extensions. For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight. For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds. For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds. For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S. For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S. For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not. (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y. For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y. For %e, use blank in example. For %h, use @code for %b. For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years. (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding. Mention that the flags are GNU extensions. Mention the 0 and ^ flags. Mention field widths an modifiers. (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
2005-02-08(stat invocation): Document stat -f -c %S (versus %s).Paul Eggert
2005-02-08(stat invocation): Normalize terminology,Paul Eggert
capitalization, and sort order to match --help output. Mention %c for file systems. Say that %s is the "Fundamental block size", since that is what POSIX says.
2005-01-10Update copyright date.Paul Eggert
2005-01-10Document changes responding to POSIX interpretations about pathchk -pPaul Eggert
dated 2005-01-06.
2005-01-07Correct last change: s/zero/no/ From Paul Jarc.Jim Meyering
2005-01-07(sort invocation): Specify that a string of zero digits is interpreted as 0.Jim Meyering
2005-01-04 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fineJim Meyering
with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
2004-12-15(ls invocation): Change minor problem to bePaul Eggert
"subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious. (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported by Stephane Chazelas.
2004-12-12(join invocation): Mention that blank separatorsPaul Eggert
in the -o option need to be quoted.
2004-12-11(id invocation): -G also prints main group.Paul Eggert
2004-12-09(ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.Paul Eggert
2004-12-04(cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.Jim Meyering
2004-11-27(du invocation): Use if=/dev/null ratherPaul Eggert
than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson. Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`". Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes". Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
2004-11-20(dd invocation): Add noctty flag to dd.Paul Eggert
2004-11-16(General output formatting): -x doesn't havePaul Eggert
an operand. (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable chars are still printed as '?' some times. (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful on non-directories. (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation): The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
2004-11-16(dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.Paul Eggert