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Paul Eggert aacd5ddd96 Fix obsolete "tail" option description. 2004-09-23 20:27:15 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9a9f80bc65 (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.
2004-09-23 20:26:31 +00:00
Jim Meyering c9461eac70 Use automake-1.9.2. Regenerate dependent files. 2004-09-22 20:18:41 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5e1765ba6c * coreutils.texi (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y".
2004-09-21 05:56:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert 2e1b232b61 (mv invocation, rm invocation): Say "the response
is affirmative" rather than "the response begins with y or Y".
2004-09-21 05:56:11 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6de3d41d5f dd invocation fixes 2004-09-19 02:14:09 +00:00
Paul Eggert 95547591e9 (dd invocation): Distinguish between options
(e.g., --help) and operands (e.g., if=file).  Move miscellaneous
stuff after the operand descriptions, for clarity.
2004-09-19 01:46:28 +00:00
Paul Eggert e54cc590f7 Document test -r, -w, -x more carefully. 2004-09-09 23:21:51 +00:00
Paul Eggert 978abbd279 (test invocation): Document -r, -w, -x more carefully. 2004-09-09 23:21:38 +00:00
Paul Eggert 0dd3269a47 Revamp sort last-resort comparison description. 2004-09-09 23:02:40 +00:00
Paul Eggert 86a87a157d (sort invocation): -u disables the last-resort
comparison, too.  Revamp its description.
2004-09-09 23:02:12 +00:00
Paul Eggert b0b7a0164e Document that test -h and -L don't dereference. 2004-09-09 04:15:32 +00:00
Paul Eggert 04ddd03a65 (test invocation): Mention that -h and -L don't dereference symlinks. 2004-09-09 04:14:49 +00:00
Paul Eggert fd8e71bcde (test invocation): Use better synopses. 2004-09-09 03:54:13 +00:00
Paul Eggert bf5a0f1dcb Mention option-reordering, particularly with tr. 2004-09-09 00:29:27 +00:00
Paul Eggert 88fde700e1 (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.
(expr invocation): Mention --help, --version.
2004-09-09 00:29:09 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9c8402de4c sort -u versus sort | uniq. 2004-09-08 19:29:41 +00:00
Paul Eggert 55fe28e3e9 (sort invocation): Add remarks about sort -u versus sort | uniq.
Prompted by a question from Andrew Noymer.
2004-09-08 19:29:18 +00:00
Paul Eggert 50df4a8518 Several od changes for POSIX and FreeBSD compatibility. 2004-09-06 07:47:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert 772b168eb3 (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).
2004-09-06 07:47:04 +00:00
Paul Eggert b05c150fed Improve quoting doc. 2004-09-06 01:03:29 +00:00
Paul Eggert ac161f59f7 (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
quoting strings for the shell.
2004-09-06 01:03:20 +00:00
Paul Eggert 0501474249 dd conversion option cleanup. 2004-09-03 08:01:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6c75cc51ea (dd invocation): Specify which conversion options
are mutually exclusive.  Give a bit more detail about ascii,
ebcdic, and ibm conversions.
2004-09-03 08:00:48 +00:00
Paul Eggert bb59926563 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.
2004-08-24 07:37:28 +00:00
Paul Eggert 59cf3747e3 POSIX-conformance fixes for "expand" and "unexpand". 2004-08-24 07:36:36 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5dd2658cb2 Regenerate. 2004-08-20 02:12:59 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9308e71ada Add support for "chown : file" and the like.
Also, fix a regression and some memory leaks.
2004-08-19 20:07:20 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6f9f676ca7 (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.
2004-08-19 20:05:52 +00:00
Paul Eggert fd7061b1ad * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify "printf". 2004-08-18 20:22:58 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9e4d09fe33 (printf invocation): Clarify how "printf" is
supposed to work with extra arguments, missing arguments, etc.
2004-08-18 20:22:32 +00:00
Paul Eggert 8c3f76651a Regenerate. 2004-08-11 23:47:29 +00:00
Paul Eggert 4eafd1b11f (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.
2004-08-10 22:07:31 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6e48f7ed86 POSIX-conformance fixes for "-" used as an operand. 2004-08-10 22:06:52 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5d204d4e2f Regenerate. 2004-08-09 18:51:05 +00:00
Paul Eggert a3538ea055 Regenerate. 2004-08-05 23:11:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert 09e6455c57 Regenerate. 2004-08-02 05:30:48 +00:00
Paul Eggert f8fe7f2e43 Regenerate. 2004-07-28 22:32:26 +00:00
Paul Eggert 62824b327f Regenerate. 2004-07-28 05:26:31 +00:00
Paul Eggert b41eb892ea (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.
2004-07-26 06:08:18 +00:00
Paul Eggert 3bc83c8a92 Document portability and POSIX fixes for "nice". 2004-07-26 06:07:40 +00:00
Paul Eggert 60a96eb684 Regenerate. 2004-07-23 22:41:52 +00:00
Paul Eggert c8ab5c1358 (tail invocation): "size has remained the same"
-> "file has not changed", which is more accurate for fifos.
2004-07-23 22:11:49 +00:00
Paul Eggert 3f565ee1fe (tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for
all pipes, just for when standard input is a pipe and no
file operand is specified.
2004-07-22 20:54:33 +00:00
Paul Eggert c3334f85b6 Regenerate. 2004-07-12 06:42:43 +00:00
Jim Meyering 48e3ae2b2f *** empty log message *** 2004-07-06 16:16:01 +00:00
Jim Meyering 159c3f467e (readlink invocation): Document new
"readlink -f" behaviour and new canonicalize options, -e and -m.
2004-07-06 16:15:45 +00:00
Jim Meyering ea32998672 . 2004-07-02 17:02:32 +00:00
Jim Meyering ebc78a4613 *** empty log message *** 2004-07-02 17:02:20 +00:00
Jim Meyering 57fcc427c0 (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.
2004-07-02 17:02:15 +00:00