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2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
* coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
"component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
--directory.
2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
(Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
(Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
(Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
(Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
(Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
(Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
nowadays.
2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
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].
2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
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.
Problem reported by Mike Stone.
2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
listed directories too, not just their contents.
2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
(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.
2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
may be treated as errors.
2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
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.
2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
(Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are 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.
2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
"subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
(dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
by Stephane Chazelas.
2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
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".
2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
(General output formatting): -x doesn't have 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.
* getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
seconds, and bytes per second.
2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
(check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
portable).
2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
(Top): Update menu.
(pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
Mention TZ.
* getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
the SUS FAQ
<http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
index entries to proper paragraph.
2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
the list of words to avoid.
2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
(printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
with POSIX terminology.
(test invocation, pwd invocation):
Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
built-in commands.
(chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
(env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
spellings, or duplicates.
2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
older systems.
2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
(e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
comparison, too. Revamp its description.
(test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
options.
(tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
This program doesn't reorder options.
(tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
(echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
(test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
(expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
(POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
quoting strings for the shell.
2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
* coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
rather than "tabstop".
(unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
group must always be preceded by separator.
"chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
chown -h.
2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
* coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
option-argument.
(shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
not to "shred ./-".
(tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
"most shells" have one.
2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
* coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
"readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
--no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
the language is similar for all.
2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
interpretation of operands as options.
Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
where appropriate.
(Target directory): Clarify description of example.
(fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
for clarity.
(sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
file names containing some special characters other than newline.
(Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
(Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
(More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
in examples.
(dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
extension).
(shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
style for the date.
(kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
isn't allowed.
(seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
options from their operands.
(Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
current documentation is unchanged from his article.
(Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
Likewise.
(link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
that we have --no-target-directory.
(ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
--no-dereference.
(unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
link invocation.
2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
--target-directory in synopsis, too.
2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
(false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
work unconditionally.
2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
does with byte/character ranges.
2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
* coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
might write F before reading all the input.
2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
(Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
than agglomerating them.
2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
file system time stamp resolution into account.
* coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
(cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
(du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
--total (-c), not with --summarize.
2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
`overfull hbox' warnings.
2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
Describe use of fractional seconds.
(date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
* getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
* coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
(Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
* getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
get_date when talking about the function name.
(Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
(General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
features.
(General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
(Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
Describe fractional-second syntax.
2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
* coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
Reported by Arvind Autar.
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
* coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
currently evokes a warning.
2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
problem.
2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
--date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
(factor invocation): Add an example.
Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
(sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
status pattern.
(chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
Remove duplicate description of status 127.
(env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
of status 1.
(nice invocation): Likewise.
2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
Factor out some common options.
* coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
(What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
(install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
(df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Document the exit status of each and every program.
* coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
(chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
(nice invocation): Likewise.
(Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
output columns.
(The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
New sections.
(rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
(chgrp invocation): And here.
2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
for signless offets.
2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
From A Costa.
2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
"whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
-t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
(who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (split invocation):
Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
* coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
fuzz in relative units.
2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
`@heading'.
2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
This change is for conformance to POSIX.
2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
From Bob Proulx.
(nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
`tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
(chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
to the related examples.
(Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
consistent with POSIX.
(uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
It uses standard exit codes.
(More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
`ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
\0NNN in the %b operand.
2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
* coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
Reported by Nelson Beebe.
2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
From Paul Eggert.
(sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
is now the default for non-regular files.
2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
Suggestion from Michael Stone.
2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
(stat invocation): Describe %B.
2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
* coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
* perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
of @code for program names.
2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
direntry lines.
* coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
Mostly from Karl Berry.
2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
--output-delimiter=STR.
2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
* coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
(Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
* coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
From Karl Berry.
2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
and somewhat contradictory.
* coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
formatting): Undo last change.
2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
specified on the command line.
2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
* coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
change \0x prefix to \x.
Change \xhhh to \xhh.
2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
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 <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
%g, %G, and %V
2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
From Martin Michlmayr.
2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
@acronym{POSIX}.
2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
* getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
Document POSIX signals better.
2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Document kill.
Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <eggert@twinsun.com>
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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
From Ian Lance Taylor.
(tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
(Standards Conformance): New section.
2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <eggert@twinsun.com>
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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
--reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
From Herbert Xu.
2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <eggert@twinsun.com>
* 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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
with no separators.
2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
as per POSIX.
2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
to quote tokens.
2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
cp (via copy.c).
2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* 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 <jim@meyering.net>
* 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.
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