1 2007-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3 * coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Fix a tiny typo.
5 2007-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
7 * constants.texi: Remove from version control.
8 This file has always been generated.
9 * .gitignore: Add constants.texi.
11 2007-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
13 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Add advice about saving
16 2007-04-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
18 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Adjust synopsis to show that an
19 OPTION is required. Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
21 2007-03-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
23 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Document escapes in output
24 format. Reported by Armijn Hemel.
26 2007-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
28 Fix manual in response to bug reports by Dan Jacobson.
29 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Explain numeric sorts better.
30 Compress self-congratulation into a simple "comparison is exact"
31 notice; the --general-numeric-sort option already explains the
33 (seq invocation): Add example of -f.
35 2007-03-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
37 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that --preserve=timestamps
38 doesn't preserve time stamps on symbolic links.
39 Reported by Polo Talnir in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866>.
41 2007-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
43 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): With -P, the default block size
44 and output format is not affected by DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, or
47 2007-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
50 (Input processing in ptx, mkdir invocation, rmdir invocation):
51 @item -> @itemx to fix some typos.
53 2007-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
55 * coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation): Say how to set the file
56 permission bits of a parent directory with mkdir -p.
58 2007-01-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
60 Document new syntax: "chown +0:+287 file", "chgrp +99 file"
61 * coreutils.texi (Disambiguating names and IDs): New section.
62 (chown invocation, chgrp invocation): Mention the new syntax
63 with an xref to the new section.
65 2007-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
67 * coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention the
68 workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug.
70 2007-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
72 * coreutils.texi (base64 invocation): When decoding, newlines
75 2007-01-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
77 Document what the ".0" in e.g., "-k 2,3.0" means, and...
78 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ... that it can be applied to the
79 field-end spec, but not the field-start one. Patch from Evan Hunt.
81 2006-12-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
83 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve the documentation
84 for bs, ibs, obs, and cbs. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
85 Patch by Olivier Delhomme.
86 (dd invocation): Add to the description of cbs.
87 (dd invocation): Specify that bs=N overrides only any
88 _preceding_ ibs and obs settings. Spotted by Andreas Schwab.
90 2006-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
92 * coreutils.texi: Remove two doubled words.
93 (Treating / specially): With --preserve-root, chgrp and chown
94 will not modify "/", even through a symlink.
96 2006-11-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
98 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Fix typo: s/setgid/setuid/.
99 Reported by Georg Neis as Debian bug 400778.
101 2006-10-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
103 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which
104 the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length".
105 Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.
107 2006-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
109 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system.
111 2006-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
113 * coreutils.texi (groups invocation): "groups" no longer prefixes
114 the output with "user :" unless more than one user is specified.
116 2006-09-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
118 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f are
119 independent. Clarify -i's behavior.
120 (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.
122 2006-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
124 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Ignore -f when standard input
127 2006-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
129 * coreutils.texi (Treating / specially): --preserve-root is
130 now the default for rm.
131 (rm invocation): Likewise. Also, document that you can't
132 remove `.' or `..'. Use the POSIX term "root directory"
133 rather than the more-ambiguous "file system root".
135 2006-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
137 * .cvsignore: Add Makefile.in, coreutils.html, coreutils.pdf,
138 coreutils.ps, coreutils.tps. Remove coreutils.cm (dunno what it
139 is, but the makefile doesn't mention it). Remove coreutils.info
140 as it is subsumed by coreutils.info*.
142 2006-08-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
144 * .cvsignore: Add files that are now generated by ../bootstrap.
146 2006-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
148 * Makefile.in, fdl.texi, getdate.texi:
149 Remove from CVS, since ../bootstrap generates them automatically.
151 2006-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
153 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Reflect doclicense.texi->fdl.texi renaming.
155 2006-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
157 * ChangeLog: Add copyright notice.
158 * Makefile.am: Likewise.
159 * getdate.texi: Likewise.
160 * perm.texi: Likewise.
161 * getdate.texi: Update to version 1.2 of the GNU FDL.
162 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
163 (Copying This Manual): Renamed from GNU Free Documentation License.
164 Now an appendix. Include fdl.texi rather than doclicense.texi.
165 * fdl.tex: Renamed from doclicense.texi. Latest version from FSF.
166 * perm.texi: Add copyright notice.
168 2006-08-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
170 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): df exits nonzero if it outputs
173 2006-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
175 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn about oflag=append without
176 conv=notrunc. See Debian bug 373736.
178 2006-08-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
180 * coreutils.texi (shuf invocation, Random sources): New sections.
181 (Operating on sorted files): Add shuf.
182 (sort invocation, shred invocation): New option --random-source.
183 (sort invocation): Fix typo: -R -> -r.
185 2006-07-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
187 * coreutils.texi (install invocation, mkdir invocation):
188 Add cross-references to Directory Setuid and Setgid.
189 (install-invocation): The default mode is no longer equivalent to 755.
190 * perm.texi (Changing Special Mode Bits): Clarify u+s versus
191 a+s versus +s, and likewise for g+s.
192 (Numeric Modes): Bring back example of 0055 == 55. 4755 no
193 longer clears setgid bit on directories.
194 (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Numeric modes now affect setuid
195 and setgid on directories only if they set these bits. This
196 is so that leading 0 has no effect on numeric modes.
198 2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
200 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Mention that missing
201 pieces of information are marked with "?". From Paul Eggert.
203 2006-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
205 * perm.texi (Directory Setuid and Setgid): Explain that this is a
206 GNU extension, and that other systems behave differently here.
208 2006-07-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
210 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Clarify that the
211 restricted deletion flag is another name for the sticky bit.
212 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): The restricted deletion flag
213 restricts only unprivileged users.
214 (Mode Structure, Symbolic Modes, Numeric Modes): Be more careful
215 about distinguishing file mode bits from permissions bits,
216 and about execute versus search permission. The FreeBSD command
217 is chflags, not chrflags.
219 2006-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
221 * coreutils.texi: Change GNU to @acronym{GNU} in a few places.
222 Use "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" a bit more consistently.
223 Use "appropriate privileges" rather than "super-user" a bit
225 (install invocation): Parent directories are now 755 without uid
226 or gid changing. The default mode is now 0755, not 755.
227 (mkdir invocation): Rewrite the top-level usage description, since
228 I couldn't easily follow the old one. It's now 3 lines not 8.
229 For -m, describe file permission bits versus other bits, and note
230 that mkdir is atomic if you don't mention special bits.
231 (chmod invocation): Mention what chmod does to setgid and setuid bits.
232 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Modernize the explanation of the
233 setuid and setgid bits on directories.
234 (Changing Special Mode Bits): Mention that a implies both u and g
235 for s. Cross reference to new node.
236 (Numeric Modes): Don't claim that 0055 is the same as 55; this isn't
237 true any more. Mention new node.
238 4755 is now like u=rwxs,go=rx,g-s, not like u=rwxs,go=rx.
239 (Directory Setuid and Setgid): New node.
241 2006-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
243 * coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkers
246 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Enforce the zeros vs. zeroes consistency.
248 2006-07-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
250 * coreutils.texi: Fix some typos. Use `zeros' consistently (both
251 `zeros' and `zeroes' are correct).
253 2006-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
255 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): With no operand, 'tail -f' now
256 silently ignores the '-f' only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe
257 and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
259 2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
261 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): seq now uses long double
262 internally rather than double. It now defaults to a minimal fixed
263 point format if possible. It lets you use %a, %A, %E, %F, %G.
264 Don't assume printf doesn't work for numbers that fit in 64 but
265 not 32 bits; typically they work these days. Improve discussion
266 of large integers and update the rounding-error numbers.
268 2006-06-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
270 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): 'sort +1 -2' is now supported
271 even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure
274 2006-06-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
276 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Remove ./ prefix from example.
279 2006-06-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
281 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Spell out `--files0-from' in
282 the example. Suggestion from Bob Proulx.
284 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Document new --files0-from option.
286 2006-06-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
288 * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting
289 multiple arguments and suffixes are extensions.
290 Reported by Dan Jacobson.
292 2006-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
294 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use $(_W) and $(W_) instead of
295 assuming grep -w (which is not portable).
297 2006-05-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
299 * Makefile.am: Use `AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS' rather than
300 overwriting `MAKEINFO', so that `missing' can do its job.
302 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Use `$(EGREP)' instead of `grep -E'.
303 (check-texinfo): Use literal `{' only in brackets, i.e., [{] or [}],
304 to avoid triggering an error from Solaris 2.6's grep.
306 2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
308 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since
311 2006-05-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
313 * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds.
315 2006-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
317 * coreutils.texi (head invocation, tail invocation, sort invocation):
318 Give advice about porting to hosts that support only obsolete syntax.
319 Problem reported by Zack Weinberg.
321 2006-04-23 Francesco Montorsi <fr_m@hotmail.com>
323 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Describe new option:
324 --group-directories-first.
326 2006-04-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
328 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Add P for Solaris
329 10 ports. Add commented-out entries for other types that POSIX
330 says are possible, or that I observed in FreeBSD documentation.
332 2006-04-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
334 * coreutils.texi (Input processing in ptx): Remove mention of the
335 default --ignore file, /usr/local/lib/eign. That file has never
336 been used. Reported by Eric Blake.
338 2006-04-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
340 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): expr exit status is 3 only for
341 internal errors now; 2 is also for invalid values in expressions.
343 (What information is listed): Document 'ls' type letters.
344 Problem reported by Lincoln Martin.
346 2006-04-09 Ori Avtalion <oavtal@bezeqint.net>
348 * coreutils.texi (Top): Add 'hostid' to System context menu line.
351 2006-03-22 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
353 * coreutils.texi (General options in ptx): Undocument --copyright.
355 2006-03-27 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
357 * coreutils.texi (dirname invocation): Macro in previous patch
360 2006-03-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
362 * coreutils.texi (basename invocation, dirname invocation):
363 Improve documentation to match recent // patches.
365 2006-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
367 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): nohup now redirects stderr to
368 nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty.
370 2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
372 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags directory, nolinks.
373 Alphabetize nofollow.
375 2006-02-17 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
377 * coreutils.texi: Add base64 section.
379 2006-02-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
381 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Fix typo in last patch.
382 (paste invocation): Fix whitespace.
384 2006-02-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
386 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Document new -I option, and new
387 --interactive behavior.
389 2006-02-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
391 * coreutils.texi (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
392 backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
393 Mention that `\' also removes any special significance, so
394 is useful for [, ], *, -. Prompted by Richard Neill in
395 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14937
397 2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
399 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high
402 2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
404 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
405 count is optional, so put square brackets around it.
407 2006-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
409 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected.
410 (Time of day items): Mention the possibility of leap seconds.
411 Problem reported by Dr. David Alan Gilbert.
413 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym around "ISO" uniformly.
414 (Date conversion specifiers): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better.
416 2006-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
418 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Say that --retry
419 is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
421 2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
423 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Clarify file mode bits versus
424 file permission bits.
425 * coreutils.texi (mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m
426 affects only file permission bits.
428 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
430 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
433 2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
435 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
436 [--format]: Add example. Distinguish from --printf.
437 Sort option descriptions.
439 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
441 * coreutils.texi (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
442 (cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
444 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
446 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
447 --random-sort, and use a simpler example.
449 2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
451 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed.
453 2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
455 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag.
457 2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
459 * coreutils.texi (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
462 2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
464 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for
466 (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
467 option and at most one file.
469 2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
471 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
472 enumerated list and fix a typo. From Aaron Hawley.
474 2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
476 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
477 --time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
478 --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
480 2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
482 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Don't mention --directory (-d).
484 2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
486 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
487 like "tail -2" more precisely.
488 (touch invocation): The old usage works only for 1969-1999 now.
490 2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
492 * coreutils.texi: Document SHA-1 and SHA-2 utilities.
494 2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
496 * doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
497 (vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
499 2005-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
501 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document du's -m option,
502 now that we've decided to keep it.
503 (who invocation): Remove documentation for deprecated --idle (-i).
505 2005-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
507 * coreutils.texi: Avoid a few overfull/underfull hboxes.
509 2005-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
511 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
512 "touch -" now touches standard output.
514 2005-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
516 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Remove a stray '+'.
518 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
520 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): uname -a no longer generates
521 the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown.
523 2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
525 * coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers, Options for date):
526 Document date --rfc-3339 and new specifiers %:z, %::z, %:::z. Use
527 "date and time" consistently; the old version sometimes said "time
528 and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
529 it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
530 Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
531 (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
534 2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
536 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document "niceness" versus
537 "nice value" versus "scheduling priority".
539 2005-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
541 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Use "niceness", not "nice value"
542 to talk about nice values offset by -20. Don't use the word
543 "priority" when niceness is intended.
545 2005-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
547 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Itemize the defaults.
550 2005-08-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
552 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation): Remove square
553 brackets in --reply=[HOW]. Reported by Oscar Liljeblad.
555 2005-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
557 * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): --check now allows multiple
560 2005-07-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
562 * coreutils.texi (false invocation):
563 Mention that false is often built-in, and that it exits
564 with status >1 on some hosts.
565 (true invocation): Remove now-incorrect "non-POSIX mode" reference.
567 2005-07-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
569 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): POSIXLY_CORRECT no longer
570 affects nohup's behavior. Input is redirected from /dev/null.
572 2005-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
574 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Remove -B or --binary option
575 (available on MS-DOS-like platforms only). Explain when text and
576 binary mode are used now.
577 (md5sum invocation): -b actually does have an effect on Unix: it
578 causes "*" to be output. Explain when text and binary mode are
581 2005-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
583 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mark --reply as deprecated.
584 (mv invocation): Likewise.
586 2005-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
588 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify how --reply=no works.
590 2005-06-14 William Brendling <wbrendling@gmail.com>
592 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): New options --last-time and
595 2005-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
597 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Change a few `paths' to `file names'.
598 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Also catch uses of path, pathname.
600 2005-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
602 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred
603 works on ext3 as long as it's not in data=journal mode.
604 Patch from Mark Melahn.
606 2005-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
608 * coreutils.texi (Backup options): Undocument --version-control=S (-V).
610 2005-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
612 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Examples, from Bob Proulx.
614 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
616 Use "file name" when talking about file names, instead of "filename"
617 or "path", as per the GNU coding standards.
618 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): "path component" ->
619 "component", since we don't use the POSIX "path" nomenclature.
621 2005-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
623 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Don't say that date
624 date --iso-8601=ns generates acceptable dates; it doesn't yet.
625 Problem reported by Nic Ferrier.
627 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
629 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
631 2005-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
633 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): chmod -w complains if its
634 behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do.
636 2005-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
638 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): ls --indicator-style=directory
639 renamed to ls --indicator-style=slash, to avoid confusion with ls
642 2005-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
644 * perm.texi (Mode Structure, Changing Special Permissions):
645 (Conditional Executability, Numeric Modes):
646 These days the sticky bit is more often uses as the restricted
647 deletion flag, so modernize the discussion about this.
648 (Mode Structure): Linux/GNU -> GNU/Linux.
649 (Symbolic Modes): Don't imply that "+ur" or "u" is valid.
650 (Setting Permissions): Don't imply that "+t" is invalid.
651 Use "rwx" rather than the less-common "rxw" in an example.
652 (Copying Permissions): Say that ugo is a replacement for
653 a string of the other letters. Add spaces around examples.
654 Use "set-user-ID" rather than "set user ID" to avoid ambiguity.
655 Use "+t" rather than "o+t", since POSIX doesn't specify the latter.
656 Mention which combinations are portable and which are GNU.
657 (Numeric Modes): Don't imply they aren't portable; they are
660 2005-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
662 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Do not mention head -10,
663 since it now works the same regardless of POSIX version.
664 (od invocation): -w N -> -w[N].
665 (pr invocation): -S STRING -> -SSTRING.
666 (fold invocation): -WIDTH works even when conforming to POSIX
668 (head invocation, tail invocation): Likewise for -NUM.
669 (split invocation): Likewise for -LINES.
670 (uniq invocation): Likewise for -N.
671 (expand invocation, unexpand invocation): Likewise for -TAB.
672 (nice invocation): Likewise for -ADJUSTMENT.
673 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of +N option.
674 (uniq invocation): Likewise.
675 (join invocation): Remove special case for --help, --version.
676 (touch invocation): Clarify explanation of date options.
677 (Options for date): -I timespec -> -I[timespec].
679 2005-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
681 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Use a= instead of 0 for
682 the point of departure for -m, and explain what it meeams.
683 (mkdir invocation, mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation):
684 The umask does not affect the point of departure.
685 Problem reported by Mike Stone.
687 2005-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
689 * coreutils.texi: For consistency, standardize on "user ID" rather
690 than "uid" or "UID" or "user id". Similarly for "group ID".
692 2005-04-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
694 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Say that --recursive removes
695 listed directories too, not just their contents.
697 2005-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
699 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document the distinction between
700 INFO and USR1 for dd, and the effect of POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
702 2005-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
704 * coreutils.texi (cat invocation, chown invocation)
705 (chgrp invocation, basename invocation, dirname invocation):
706 Add examples, which are copies of the examples newly added
707 to the usage messages.
708 (ln invocation): Use same format as other examples above,
711 2005-03-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
713 * coreutils.texi: Clarify NUL vs null byte vs null character.
715 2005-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
717 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.
719 2005-03-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
721 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
722 may be treated as errors.
724 2005-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
726 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
727 clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
728 Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
729 with POSIX. All uses changed.
730 Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
731 (Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
732 Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
733 Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
734 Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
735 Say why %F is preferred for dates.
736 (Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
737 Likewise for other changes.
738 (Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
739 Document #. Give an example for %9B.
741 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
743 * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c.
744 (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are GNU extensions.
745 For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
746 For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
747 For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
748 For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
749 For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
750 For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used. These options
751 are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
752 (Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
753 For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
754 For %e, use blank in example.
755 For %h, use @code for %b.
756 For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
757 (Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
758 Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
759 Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
760 Mention field widths an modifiers.
761 (Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
763 2005-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
765 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Specify that a string
766 of zero digits is interpreted as 0. Reported by Ulrich Hermisson.
768 2005-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
770 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
771 with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
772 file system data. Also mention BFS and NTFS.
774 2004-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
776 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
777 "subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
778 (dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval. Problem reported
779 by Stephane Chazelas.
781 2004-12-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
783 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
784 in the -o option need to be quoted. Problem reported by Phil Clayton.
786 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
788 * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group.
789 Problem reported by Tim Waugh.
791 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
793 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status.
795 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
797 * getdate.texi (Time of day items, Time zone items):
798 Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
800 2004-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
802 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful.
804 2004-10-01 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
806 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document --complement and
807 adjust the documentation of -b, -c, -f.
809 2004-11-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
811 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Use if=/dev/null rather
812 than :|. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.
813 Use "seek=2GiB" rather than the wordier "seek=`echo '2^31'|bc`".
814 Say "KiB" not the (inaccurate) "kilobytes".
815 Similarly for "GiB" and "gigabytes".
817 2004-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
819 * coreutils.texi: Changes inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2.
820 (General output formatting): -x doesn't have an operand.
821 (Formatting the file names): Warn that even with -N unprintable
822 chars are still printed as '?' some times.
823 (rm invocation): Reword rm -d to note that it's sometimes useful
825 (logname invocation, users invocation, who invocation):
826 The utmp and wtmp file names vary from system to system.
828 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
829 Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
831 2004-11-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
833 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message.
835 2004-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
837 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): dd now outputs total bytes,
838 seconds, and bytes per second.
840 2004-11-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
842 * Makefile.am (_W, W_): New macros.
843 (check-texinfo): Use them instead of assuming grep -w (which is not
846 2004-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
848 * coreutils.texi: Document TZ better, and adjust to new getdate.texi.
850 (pr invocation, Formatting file timestamps, touch invocation,
851 stat invocation, who invocation, date invocation, Options for date):
853 * getdate.texi: Sync from gnulib.
855 2004-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
857 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Use "head -10" rather
858 than "head -1" as example of obsolete usage, since the POSIX
859 consensus is that "head -1" could be supported even if we don't
860 yet have clear consensus on "head -10". See today's revision to
862 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/single_unix_faq.html>.
864 2004-10-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
866 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Options must precede operands.
868 2004-10-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
870 * coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Overall lengths are
871 OS limits, not file system limits. Component length checks
872 apply to all components, not merely to existing ones. Say
873 that nonexistent names are not errors. For -p, omit all
874 checks based on the underlying file system, not merely length
875 checks. Explain what the portable file name character set is.
877 2004-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
879 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Mention ISO/IEC 10646 as
880 well as Unicode. Various minor formatting cleanups.
882 2004-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
884 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Move LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE
885 index entries to proper paragraph.
887 2004-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
889 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add `builtin' and `builtins' to
890 the list of words to avoid.
892 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
894 * coreutils.texi (Special built-in utilities): New node.
895 (printf invocation): builtin -> built-in, for consistency
896 with POSIX terminology.
897 (test invocation, pwd invocation):
898 Use specific rather than generic language to warn about
900 (chroot invocation, env invocation, nice invocation, nohup invocation):
901 Warn that command must not be a special built-in.
902 (env invocation): Warn about environment variables with unusual
903 spellings, or duplicates.
905 2004-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
907 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document "ls --hide".
909 2004-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
911 * coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Warn about "chmod -w file".
913 2004-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
915 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Fix bugs in the description of
916 the obsolete syntax (e.g., it does not support -k or -m). Warn
917 about usages like "tail -" and "tail -c 4" that are ambigous on
920 2004-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
922 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
923 is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y",
924 so that the documentation is accurate in non-English locales.
925 Problem reported by Munzir Taha.
927 2004-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
929 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
930 (e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file). Move miscellaneous
931 stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
933 2004-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
935 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
936 comparison, too. Revamp its description.
937 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully.
939 2004-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
941 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Some programs don't reorder
943 (tr invocation, echo invocation, printf invocation, test invocation,
944 expr invocation, basename invocation, chroot invocation,
945 nice invocation, nohup invocation, seq invocation):
946 This program doesn't reorder options.
947 (tr invocation): Mention --help, --version, --.
948 (echo invocation): Mention that -- isn't special.
949 (test invocation): Mention that the expression is optional,
950 and that test ! EXPR is like ! test EXPR.
951 Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks.
952 (expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
954 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u
955 versus sort | uniq. Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
957 2004-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
959 * coreutils.texi (od invocation): Several changes for POSIX
960 and FreeBSD compatibility. Add support for XSI syntax
961 (POSIX 1003.1-2004). Rename -s[N] to -S N. Remove documentation
962 for -h. -i is now -t dI (not d2) and -l is now -t dL (not d4).
964 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
966 * coreutils.texi (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
967 quoting strings for the shell.
969 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
971 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
972 are mutually exclusive. Give a bit more detail about ascii,
973 ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
975 2004-08-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
977 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand".
978 * coreutils.texi: Standardize on "tab stop" (the POSIX usage)
979 rather than "tabstop".
980 (unexpand invocation): Use "blank" rather than "space" when
981 POSIX requires "blank". Define "blank". Initial blanks are
982 converted even if there's just one. For -a, convert two or
983 more blanks only if they occur just before a tab stop.
985 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
987 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Fix synopsis:
988 group must always be preceded by separator.
989 "chown : file" and "chown '' file" don't change the owner or group.
990 Update the explanation of what happens to the set-user-ID or
991 set-group-ID bits, e.g., they sometimes are not cleared if they
992 denote mandatory locking. Change "find"-oriented examples to use
995 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
997 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
998 supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
1000 2004-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1002 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand.
1003 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Clarify that "-" means
1004 stdin/stdout only when it is an operand, not when it is an
1006 (shred invocation): "shred -- -" is equivalent to "shred -",
1008 (tee invocation): "tee -" means to copy (again) to stdout.
1010 2004-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1012 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Document the "nice value", and
1013 how it affects the scheduling priority. (The old documentation
1014 implied that the nice value equaled the scheduling priority, which
1015 isn't accurate.) Document that the range of nice values might
1016 exceed -20..19. Specify what happens when you give a nice value
1017 that is out of range, or when you don't have permissions to lower
1018 the nice value. Bash doesn't have a builtin 'nice', so don't say
1019 "most shells" have one.
1021 2004-04-03 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1023 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Document new
1024 "readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
1026 2004-07-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1028 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Disallow `filename' in .texi files.
1029 Spell it like `file name' instead, to be consistent.
1030 Fail if a @footnote directive follows non-punctuation.
1031 Fail upon use of @url. Use @uref instead.
1033 2004-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1035 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp invocation,
1036 install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Add -t as a
1037 short option for --target-directory, and -T as a short option for
1038 --no-target-directory. Clean up relevant synopses a bit, so that
1039 the language is similar for all.
1041 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1043 * coreutils.texi: Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
1044 Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style).
1045 Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the
1046 previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency),
1047 and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate.
1048 In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired
1049 interpretation of operands as options.
1050 Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards.
1051 Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote.
1052 Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ".
1053 Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname",
1054 since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path".
1055 Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places,
1057 (Target directory): Clarify description of example.
1058 (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword
1060 (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles
1061 file names containing some special characters other than newline.
1062 (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable.
1063 Use '\0' rather than '\000'.
1064 (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne.
1065 Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'.
1066 (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent
1068 (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX
1069 indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI
1071 (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical
1073 (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1"
1075 (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily
1076 fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating
1077 options from their operands.
1078 (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to
1079 Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the
1080 current documentation is unchanged from his article.
1081 (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't
1082 assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C
1083 locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either.
1084 Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some
1085 unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software
1086 Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway.
1087 Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
1089 2004-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1091 * coreutils.texi, perm.texi: Standardize on "file system" rather
1092 than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
1094 2004-06-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1096 * coreutils.texi (Common options, Target directory, cp
1097 invocation, install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation):
1099 (link invocation): Explain how to rewrite link using ln now
1100 that we have --no-target-directory.
1101 (ln invocation): Explain that --no-target-directory subsumes
1103 (unlink invocation): Modify wording to match new wording in
1106 2004-06-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1108 * coreutils.texi (install invocation): Document
1109 --target-directory in synopsis, too.
1111 2004-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1113 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): "--" is now supported.
1114 (false invocation, true invocation): --help and --version now
1115 work unconditionally.
1117 2004-06-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1119 * coreutils.texi: Remove menu references to just-removed subsection.
1121 2004-06-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1123 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Remove the section describing
1124 how POSIXLY_CORRECT changes tr's behavior.
1126 2004-06-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1128 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Clarify what --output-delimiter=STR
1129 does with byte/character ranges.
1131 2004-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1133 * coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Mention -C.
1135 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1137 * coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Document today's changes.
1139 2004-05-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1141 chgrp and chown now dereference symlinks by default, per POSIX.
1142 * coreutils.texi (chgrp invocation, chown invocation): Document it.
1144 2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1146 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
1147 might write F before reading all the input.
1149 2004-05-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1151 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Change IO to I/O.
1152 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1154 2004-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1156 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention -k earlier, so
1157 that the options are in alphabetical order. Describe how -b works
1158 more-accurately; this involves fixing some examples, too. Mention
1159 what happens if the start field falls after an end field or after
1160 a line end. Warn about using -k without -b, -g, -M, -n, or -t.
1161 Add an example of how to sort IPv4 addresses and Apache Common
1162 Log Format dates. Remove a duplicate example.
1163 (Putting the tools together): Use separate options rather
1164 than agglomerating them.
1166 2004-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1168 cp -pu and mv -u (when copying) now take the destination
1169 file system time stamp resolution into account.
1171 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Document this.
1172 (cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
1174 2004-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1176 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Remove noctty flag from dd.
1178 2004-04-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1180 New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync,
1181 and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.
1183 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document them.
1185 2004-04-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1187 * coreutils.texi (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option.
1189 2004-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1191 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Correct --format description.
1193 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1195 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE.
1197 2004-03-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1199 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Add a check to ensure future
1200 consistency in using @sc{nul}, not `NUL'.
1202 2004-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1204 * coreutils.texi: Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL.
1205 (du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
1207 2004-03-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1209 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with
1210 --total (-c), not with --summarize.
1212 2004-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1214 * coreutils.texi: Tweak a few lines that resulted in
1215 `overfull hbox' warnings.
1217 2004-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1219 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F.
1221 2004-02-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1223 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation):
1224 Describe use of fractional seconds.
1225 (date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
1226 * getdate.texi (General date syntax, Time of day items): Likewise.
1227 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
1228 (Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
1230 * getdate.texi: Add copyright notice. Change getdate to
1231 get_date when talking about the function name.
1232 (Seconds since the Epoch): New section, containing the time_t
1233 info moved from Date input formats section, along with new
1234 info about the @ syntax. Mention negative time stamps,
1235 fractional time stamps, and leap seconds.
1236 (General date syntax): Modernize examples a bit to reflect new
1238 (General date syntax, Relative items in date strings):
1239 Use ' rather than " to quote formats.
1240 (Time of day items): Add an example with fractional seconds.
1241 Describe fractional-second syntax.
1243 2004-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1245 * coreutils.texi (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range
1246 in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry. From Bob Proulx.
1248 * coreutils.texi: Add FIXME comment:
1249 The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime.
1251 2004-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1253 * coreutils.texi (Sorting the output): Remove description of
1254 ls's --sort=directory option. ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
1255 Reported by Arvind Autar.
1257 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Improve description of
1258 cp's --sparse=WHEN option.
1260 * coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_
1261 regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
1262 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1264 2004-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1266 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls
1267 back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
1268 1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
1270 2004-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1272 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option
1273 currently evokes a warning.
1275 2004-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1277 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation):
1278 Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
1279 consistently instead of "number". Warn about operands
1280 that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the
1283 2004-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1285 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Correct typo (s/LINE/N/)
1286 in description of `N' pattern. From Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
1288 2004-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1290 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the
1291 --date=DATE option; don't say otherwise. Patch from Padraig Brady.
1293 2004-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1295 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names):
1296 Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
1297 Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
1299 2004-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1301 * coreutils.texi (nice invocation): Add examples.
1302 Prompted by a suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1303 (factor invocation): Add an example.
1304 Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
1306 2004-01-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1308 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis.
1309 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples.
1310 Clarify first paragraph. @w{}-protect an expression.1
1311 Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
1313 2004-01-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1315 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure
1316 might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
1317 Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
1318 status patterns. Don't bother to mention true and false
1319 since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
1320 (sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
1322 (chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
1323 Remove duplicate description of status 127.
1324 (env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
1326 (nice invocation): Likewise.
1328 2003-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1330 * coreutils.texi (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now
1331 both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
1333 2004-01-15 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu>
1335 Factor out some common options.
1336 * coreutils.texi (Common options): Define macros here.
1337 (What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
1338 (install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
1339 (df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
1341 2004-01-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1343 Document the exit status of each and every program.
1344 * coreutils.texi (yes invocation): Document that a write error
1345 makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
1346 (chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
1347 (nice invocation): Likewise.
1348 (Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
1349 Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
1351 2004-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1353 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually
1354 mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
1356 2003-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1358 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null.
1360 2003-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1362 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed, chroot invocation):
1363 Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
1365 (The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
1366 'ls -l'. The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
1367 the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
1369 2003-11-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1371 Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale.
1372 POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
1373 consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).
1375 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation, printf invocation,
1376 sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
1378 2003-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1380 * coreutils.texi (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially):
1382 (rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
1383 Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
1385 2003-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1387 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro
1388 describing -H, -L, -P options. Use it here.
1389 (chgrp invocation): And here.
1391 2003-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1393 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Fix typo in example.
1395 2003-10-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1397 * coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F
1398 probably won't work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1400 2003-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1402 * coreutils.texi (csplit invocation):
1403 The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
1404 for signless offets.
1406 2003-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1408 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference.
1410 2003-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1412 * coreutils.texi (Translating): Correct typo in menu description.
1415 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1417 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i.
1418 "whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
1419 -t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
1421 2003-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1423 * coreutils.texi (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login.
1424 Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
1425 (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation.
1427 2003-08-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1429 * coreutils.texi (split invocation):
1430 Add -d or --numeric-suffixes option to 'split'.
1432 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1434 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): Add --rfc-2822 option to GNU date.
1435 * coreutils.texi (Options for date): Fix a typo in format:
1436 it's now %d not %_d. Add URLs.
1438 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1440 * getdate.texi (Relative items in date strings): Warn about
1441 fuzz in relative units.
1443 2003-07-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1445 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Restore two end-of-sentence words
1446 that were mistakenly removed on 2002-09-13. Reported by Paul Worrall.
1448 2003-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1450 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Explain that a SIGUSR1 signal
1451 makes dd give a progress report to stderr.
1453 2003-07-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1455 * coreutils.texi: Document changes of 2003-07-24.
1457 2003-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1459 * coreutils.texi (su invocation): Use `@subsection', not invalid
1462 2003-07-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1464 * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Exit status is 2 if the
1465 expression is syntactically invalid, 3 if there is some other error.
1466 This change is for conformance to POSIX.
1468 2003-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1470 * coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Explain the POSIX
1471 terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
1473 2003-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1475 * coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Warn that chown
1476 now clears set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on some systems.
1478 (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
1479 Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
1481 2003-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1483 * coreutils.texi (Standards conformance): Mention that uses like
1484 `tail -1' and `head -1', like `sort +1', are non conforming.
1485 (chown invocation): Say that using `.' as a separator may not work.
1487 2003-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1489 * coreutils.texi (Time directives) [%s]: Add a cross reference
1490 to the related examples.
1491 (Examples of date): Add an @anchor here, along with a few more examples.
1492 Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
1494 2003-06-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1496 * coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Tweak wording: wc prints counts in
1497 the order `newline, word, byte'. Suggestion from Keith M. Briggs.
1498 Also change `lines' to `newlines'.
1500 2003-05-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1502 * coreutils.texi (head invocation): Document --bytes=-N and --lines=-N.
1504 2003-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1506 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation, squeezing, The uniq command):
1507 Use "repeated" rather than "duplicate" to describe adjacent
1508 duplicates; this simplifies the description and makes it more
1509 consistent with POSIX.
1510 (uniq invocation): Make it clear that -d and -u suppress the
1511 output of lines, rather than cause some lines to be output.
1512 Mention what happens if a line lacks enough fields or characters.
1514 2003-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1516 * coreutils.texi (true invocation): Mention that it is possible to
1517 make true --help or true --version (in non-POSIX mode) exit nonzero.
1518 Suggestion from Paul Eggert.
1520 2003-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1522 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): Remove `uniq' from the list.
1523 It uses standard exit codes.
1524 (More details about version sort): Note that strverscmp, and hence
1525 `ls -v', does not use LC_COLLATE. Reported by From: Andrey Borzenkov.
1527 2003-04-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1529 Fix printf POSIX compatibility bug reported by Ben Harris in
1530 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-04/msg00070.html>.
1531 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): It's \NNN in the format,
1532 \0NNN in the %b operand.
1534 2003-04-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1536 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for uses of non-zero.
1537 I prefer to spell it `nonzero'.
1539 * coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Tweak description a little.
1541 2003-04-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1543 * Makefile.am (constants.texi): Rename target (thus enabling it),
1544 now that fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils have been merged.
1545 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Define.
1547 2003-04-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1549 * coreutils.texi (false invocation): Note that false exits
1550 unsuccessfully even with --help and --version.
1552 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Don't fail if perl is missing.
1553 Reported by Nelson Beebe.
1555 2003-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1557 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix formatting bugs.
1559 (sort invocation): Describe sort's --stable (-s) option.
1561 2003-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1563 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
1564 is now the default for non-regular files.
1566 2003-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1568 * coreutils.texi (Exit status): New section.
1569 Suggestion from Michael Stone.
1571 2003-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1573 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document --apparent-size.
1574 Adjust documentation of --bytes (-b).
1575 (stat invocation): Describe %B.
1577 2003-02-07 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
1579 * coreutils.texi: Use @command instead of @code for program names.
1581 * perm.texi (Mode Structure): Mention filesystem-specific
1582 permissions and that mounting a filesystem as read-only may
1583 override actual file permissions. Use @command instead
1584 of @code for program names.
1586 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1588 * coreutils.texi: Adjust alignment and mention `file, text, shell'
1589 on the `* Coreutils:...' dirently line. From Karl Berry.
1591 2003-02-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1593 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Allow bare `POSIX' to be used on
1596 * coreutils.texi: Use new form of @direntry.
1597 Put unlink in its proper place. Adjust wording in some
1598 dir entry descriptions, mainly so they fit in 80 columns.
1599 Don't use mark-up like @acronym{POSIX} in direntries.
1600 Mostly from Karl Berry.
1602 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1604 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
1605 --output-delimiter=STR.
1607 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1609 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
1610 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
1612 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
1613 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
1615 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
1618 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1620 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
1621 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
1623 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1625 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
1626 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
1627 and somewhat contradictory.
1629 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
1630 formatting): Undo last change.
1632 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1634 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
1635 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
1636 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
1637 specified on the command line.
1639 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
1641 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
1643 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1645 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
1646 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
1648 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1650 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
1651 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
1653 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1655 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
1656 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
1657 Include a lot more description, with examples.
1659 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1661 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
1662 change \0x prefix to \x.
1663 Change \xhhh to \xhh.
1665 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1667 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
1668 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
1670 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
1671 This affects display format as well as block size.
1672 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
1673 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
1674 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
1675 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
1676 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
1677 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
1678 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
1679 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
1682 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1684 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
1685 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
1686 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
1687 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
1689 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1691 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
1692 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
1694 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1696 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
1698 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1700 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
1702 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
1703 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
1704 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
1705 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
1707 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1709 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
1712 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
1714 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
1715 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
1716 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
1718 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1720 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
1721 From Martin Michlmayr.
1723 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1725 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
1726 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
1728 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
1730 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1732 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
1734 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1736 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
1737 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
1739 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1741 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
1742 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1744 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1746 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
1748 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1750 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
1752 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1754 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
1755 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
1757 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1759 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
1762 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1764 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
1765 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
1767 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1769 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
1771 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1773 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
1774 Document POSIX signals better.
1776 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1778 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
1779 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
1781 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1783 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
1785 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1787 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
1788 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
1790 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1792 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
1793 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
1794 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
1796 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1798 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
1799 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
1802 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1804 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
1805 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
1808 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
1809 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
1810 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
1811 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
1812 links unless you also specify -P.
1814 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1816 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
1817 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
1819 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1821 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
1822 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
1824 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1826 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
1827 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
1829 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1831 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
1832 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
1834 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1836 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
1837 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
1839 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1841 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
1842 From Ian Lance Taylor.
1843 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
1845 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1847 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
1848 (Standards Conformance): New section.
1850 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1852 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
1853 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
1855 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1857 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
1858 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
1859 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
1860 change to "touch", for fileutils).
1862 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1864 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
1866 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1868 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
1870 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1872 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
1873 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
1875 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1877 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
1878 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
1879 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
1880 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
1882 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1884 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
1886 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1888 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
1889 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
1890 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
1891 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
1892 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
1893 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
1895 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1897 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
1898 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
1900 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1902 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
1903 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
1905 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1907 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
1908 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
1910 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1912 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
1915 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1917 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
1918 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
1919 the input contains no unpairable lines.
1921 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1924 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
1925 and -o or --operating-system.
1926 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
1927 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
1928 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
1929 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
1930 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
1932 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1934 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
1937 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1939 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
1942 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1944 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
1946 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1948 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
1951 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1953 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
1956 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1958 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
1959 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
1961 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
1962 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
1964 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
1965 Reported by Keith Thompson.
1967 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1969 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
1971 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
1972 does when given no arguments.
1974 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1976 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
1978 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
1979 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
1981 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.
1986 Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software
1989 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
1990 modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice
1991 and this notice are preserved.