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2002-11-13(Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.Jim Meyering
2002-11-09(What information is listed): Correct parts of --dired description.Jim Meyering
Include a lot more description, with examples.
2002-11-06(printf invocation): Fix typo in index: change \0x prefix to \x.Jim Meyering
Change \xhhh to \xhh.
2002-11-06Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,Jim Meyering
thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output. (Block size): Say that: This affects display format as well as block size. Fractional block counts are rounded up. ls file size blocksize defaults to 1. A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators. A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes. (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB. (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by --block-size.
2002-09-13(Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].Jim Meyering
2002-09-13(stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.Jim Meyering
2002-09-13(tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,Jim Meyering
NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
2002-08-30[START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.Jim Meyering
Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
2002-08-02uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.Jim Meyering
2002-07-29Change behavior to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001:Jim Meyering
- Do not adjust scheduling priority. - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal. - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked, 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
2002-07-24(Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F, %g, %G, and %VJim Meyering
2002-07-22(Formatting the file names): DocumentJim Meyering
that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal. Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
2002-07-10(du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.Jim Meyering
2002-07-08df now rounds all quantities up, as per POSIX.Jim Meyering
This fixes a bug where df would report Size < Used.
2002-07-08s/sh-utils/this package/Jim Meyering
2002-07-08New ls time style: long-iso, which generates YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM.Jim Meyering
Any time style can be preceded by "posix-". The default time style is now posix-long-iso instead of posix-iso.
2002-07-08(cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;Jim Meyering
Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character. From Paul Eggert.
2002-07-06(stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.Jim Meyering
2002-07-03(stat invocation): Rename --link/-l to --dereference/-L.Jim Meyering
Rewrite description of --dereference.
2002-06-26(Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,Jim Meyering
since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
2002-06-21tiny tweaksJim Meyering
2002-06-21(stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.Jim Meyering
2002-06-15(ls invocation): Document new option: --author.Jim Meyering
2002-06-03(rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help output)Jim Meyering
that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
2002-05-28more acronymsJim Meyering
2002-05-26Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.Jim Meyering
2002-04-28Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.Jim Meyering
2002-04-28Change @code{PROG} to @command{PROG} for the fileutils.Jim Meyering
2002-04-28Begin changing @code{PROG} to @command{PROG}.Jim Meyering
2002-04-28Use @command{(un)?link}, not @code{...} where appropriateJim Meyering
2002-04-28(kill invocation): Document the above.Jim Meyering
Document POSIX signals better.
2002-04-16s/POSIX/@sc{posix}/Jim Meyering
2002-04-15Document kill.Jim Meyering
2002-04-14alphabetize entries in a menuJim Meyering
In xref, use libc instead of library.
2002-04-13Document link and unlink.Jim Meyering
2002-04-08Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,Jim Meyering
thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
2002-03-25(File characteristic tests): Document theJim Meyering
behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist, using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
2002-03-06(cut invocation): Say that selected input is written in the sameJim Meyering
order that it is read, and is written exactly once.
2002-03-03Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contentsJim Meyering
for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable) cp -r behavior. (cp invocation): Document this. Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic links unless you also specify -P.
2002-03-02(cp invocation): Document that cp -rJim Meyering
preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
2002-03-01(Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.Jim Meyering
This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
2002-02-28(pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'Jim Meyering
in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
2002-02-28(Formatting file timestamps): Document newJim Meyering
time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
2002-02-19(seq invocation): In the example, use "tailJim Meyering
-n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
2002-02-17(tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.Jim Meyering
2002-02-17(tsort background): New section.Jim Meyering
From Ian Lance Taylor.
2002-02-16fix typoJim Meyering
2002-02-16Add support for _POSIX2_VERSION, which lets you pick which POSIXJim Meyering
version you want the utilities to conform to. Remove warnings about failure to conform to a future POSIX version. * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION. * doc/coreutils.texi (Standards Conformance): New section.
2002-02-15Change 'split' to conform to POSIX. It now accepts an -a orJim Meyering
--suffix-length option, and refuses to generate more files than there are suffixes. Document this.
2002-02-11Add more support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removalJim Meyering
for support of obsolete "-DIGITS" option syntax in nice, and which prohibits options with optional arguments like date's -I option. Document this.