2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin * coreutils.texi: Document readlink. 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas. 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s. Reported by Thomas Goerlich. 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]: Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel. Include a lot more description, with examples. 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index: change \0x prefix to \x. Change \xhhh to \xhh. 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g., thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output. * coreutils.texi (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 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER, NUMBER may now be a floating point number. (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C. (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60]. 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS. Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak. 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE. 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001: - 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 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F, %g, %G, and %V 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal. Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612. 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/. From Martin Michlmayr. 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example; Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character. From Paul Eggert. * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above. 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure. 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference. 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep, since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001. 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes. 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author. 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable. 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use @acronym{POSIX}. 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc. * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise. 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'. 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above. Document POSIX signals better. 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Document kill. Written by Marcus Brinkmann. 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink. 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying, thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file. 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist, using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93. 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once. 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable) cp -r behavior. * coreutils.texi (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 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r. 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds. This documents the recent change to 'ls'. 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:' in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it. 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT. 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001. 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section. From Ian Lance Taylor. (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example. 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION. (Standards Conformance): New section. 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx. 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq. * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar change to "touch", for fileutils). 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems. 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u. 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples. Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples. 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, 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 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=... 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is 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. 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure. 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option: --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos. 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u. 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F. From Herbert Xu. 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU extension to join, which does not require sorted input when the input contains no unpairable lines. 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi: New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform, 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. 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines with no separators. 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison, as per POSIX. 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere. 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens. 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to cp (via copy.c). 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/. * coreutils.texi: Likewise. * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi. * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi. * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale. Reported by Keith Thompson. 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering * texinfo.tex: Update from master source. * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls does when given no arguments. 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering * textutils.texi: Remove file. * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST). (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now. This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.