for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
cp -r behavior.
(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.
version you want the utilities to conform to. Remove warnings about
failure to conform to a future POSIX version.
* NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Standards Conformance): New section.
support of obsolete "-N" option syntax in expand, head, fold,
split, tail, unexpand, uniq, and which prohibits options with
optional arguments in od and pr.
support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
change to "touch", for fileutils).
For example, --block-size=1MB now means --block-size=1000000,
whereas --block-size=1MiB now means --block-size=1048576.
A trailing `B' now means decimal, not binary; this is a silent change.
-H or --si now outputs the trailing 'B', for consistency with this.
Programs now output trailing 'K' (not 'k') to mean 1024.
New df, du short option -B is short for --block-size.
You can omit an integer `1' before a block size suffix,
e.g. `df -BG' is equivalent to `df -B 1G' and to `df --block-size=1G'.
Document the above. Remove documentation
for obsolescent constructs MD, --kilobytes, -m or --megabytes.
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.
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.
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.
Jim Meyering