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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.
2002-02-11Add more support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal forJim Meyering
support of obsolete "-N" option syntax in expand, head, fold, split, tail, unexpand, uniq, and which prohibits options with optional arguments in od and pr.
2002-01-24(START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entriesJim Meyering
and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
2002-01-16Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal forJim Meyering
support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq. * doc/coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar change to "touch", for fileutils).
2002-01-12(shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.Jim Meyering
2001-12-21Use notation compatible with SI and with IEC 60027-2.Jim Meyering
For example, --block-size=1MB now means --block-size=1000000, whereas --block-size=1MiB now means --block-size=1048576. A trailing `B' now means decimal, not binary; this is a silent change. -H or --si now outputs the trailing 'B', for consistency with this. Programs now output trailing 'K' (not 'k') to mean 1024. New df, du short option -B is short for --block-size. You can omit an integer `1' before a block size suffix, e.g. `df -BG' is equivalent to `df -B 1G' and to `df --block-size=1G'. Document the above. Remove documentation for obsolescent constructs MD, --kilobytes, -m or --megabytes.
2001-12-05(join invocation): tweak wordingJim Meyering
2001-11-10tweak locale-related somments for sortJim Meyering
2001-11-10tweak locale-related somments for sortJim Meyering
2001-11-10(Date directives): Document %u.Jim Meyering
2001-11-08(paste invocation): Give examples.Jim Meyering
Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
2001-11-05(sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,Jim Meyering
not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems. Based on a message from Paul Eggert. (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
2001-10-21(cp invocation): Describe --reply=...Jim Meyering
2001-10-17(cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' isJim Meyering
no longer equivalent to `cp -d'. `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'. cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents. Describe new optional argument to --preserve. Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
2001-09-16(mv invocation): Describe new option: --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.Jim Meyering
2001-09-16(uniq invocation): The input need notJim Meyering
be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
2001-09-12(tail invocation): Document new option: -F.Jim Meyering
From Herbert Xu.
2001-09-07New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,Jim Meyering
and -o or --operating-system. 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end. New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v. Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release, and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name; the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
2001-09-06(join invocation): Describe the GNUJim Meyering
extension to join, which does not require sorted input when the input contains no unpairable lines.
2001-08-26expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison, as per POSIX.Jim Meyering
2001-08-25Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.Jim Meyering
2001-08-24(cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines with no separators.Jim Meyering
2001-08-24'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens.Jim Meyering
2001-08-21wording tweakJim Meyering
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