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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. |