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2005-12-17(stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.Jim Meyering
[--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf. Sort option descriptions.
2005-12-17(ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.Jim Meyering
(cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
2005-12-12(sort invocation): Clarify explanation ofPaul Eggert
--random-sort, and use a simpler example.
2005-12-10(sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.Paul Eggert
2005-12-07(dd invocation): New noatime flag.Paul Eggert
2005-11-26(df invocation): Document treatment of dummy filePaul Eggert
systems better.
2005-11-16(tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly onePaul Eggert
option and at most one file.
2005-11-16(ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for successful links.Paul Eggert
2005-11-08(Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults toPaul Eggert
--time-style='locale', which in turn acts like --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
2005-11-02(rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).Paul Eggert
2005-11-01(touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.Paul Eggert
2005-11-01(tail invocation): Describe obsolete usagesPaul Eggert
like "tail -2" more precisely.
2005-10-23Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utlities.Jim Meyering
2005-10-16(Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):Jim Meyering
(vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
2005-10-15(who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).Jim Meyering
2005-10-15(du invocation): Document du's -m option, now that we've decided to keep it.Jim Meyering
2005-10-13Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.Jim Meyering
2005-09-25(touch invocation): "touch -" now touches standard output.Paul Eggert
2005-09-17(who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.Paul Eggert
2005-09-15uname -a no longer generates the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.Paul Eggert
2005-09-13Fix wording in previous patch.Paul Eggert
2005-09-13(uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for -i and -p.Paul Eggert
2005-09-13(Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):Paul Eggert
Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822: it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero. Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
2005-09-09Fix typo in previous patch: @command{POSIX} -> @acronym{POSIX}.Paul Eggert
2005-09-09(nice invocation): Document "niceness" versusPaul Eggert
"nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
2005-09-08Use the phrase "niceness" instead of "nice value" to describePaul Eggert
the biased nice value that can go negative. This corrects a discrepancy with POSIX, which states that nice values are nonnegative.
2005-08-15(join invocation): Itemize the defaults.Jim Meyering
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.