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1049 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Eggert 1aab3a0c90 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
may be treated as errors.
2005-03-11 23:13:37 +00:00
Paul Eggert 8e80be2356 (Formatting file timestamps): Very long timestamps
may be treated as errors.
2005-03-11 23:13:19 +00:00
Jim Meyering c4ce40a9a3 . 2005-03-09 10:17:30 +00:00
Paul Eggert 2db098a3c3 Improve "date invocation" again. 2005-03-08 22:19:54 +00:00
Paul Eggert e0113b0175 (date invocation): Use an example that makes it
clear tha the default date use space-padded day of month.
Replace "directive" with "conversion specifier" to be consistent
with POSIX.  All uses changed.
Fix menu RHS to match actual directive lists.
(Time conversion specifiers): Renamed from Time directives.
Use @samp consistently, sometimes instead of @code.
Consistently ention which specifiers are GNU extensions.
Give more examples (in some cases, instead of ranges).
Say why %F is preferred for dates.
(Date conversion specifiers): Renamed from Date directives.
Likewise for other changes.
(Padding and other flags): Correct the description.
Document #.  Give an example for %9B.
2005-03-08 22:19:39 +00:00
Jim Meyering 56553ab2e1 . 2005-03-01 20:27:24 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9ba7355604 Regenerate. 2005-02-26 07:42:19 +00:00
Paul Eggert 641ef33fac * coreutils.texi: Adjust to match current strftime.c. 2005-02-24 00:28:16 +00:00
Paul Eggert b2265ebeea (Time directives): Say that %k, %l, and %P are
GNU extensions.
For %p and %P, mention handling of noon and midnight.
For %s, use ISO 8601, and mention handling of leap seconds.
For %S, clarify mention of leap seconds.
For %T, say that it's the same as %H:%M:%S.
For %X, don't say that it must be the same as %H:%M:%S.
For %z and %Z, clarify which time zones are used.  These options
are now affected by --date, so don't claim that they're not.
(Date directives): %C is now all but the last two chars of %Y.
For %D, say that it's equivalent to %m/%d/%y.
For %e, use blank in example.
For %h, use @code for %b.
For %Y, mention what happens with outlandish years.
(Padding and other flags): Renamed from Padding.
Mention that the flags are GNU extensions.
Mention the 0 and ^ flags.
Mention field widths an modifiers.
(Examples of date): - is a flag, not a modifier.
2005-02-24 00:27:44 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5677f3f7d9 Regenerate. 2005-02-22 07:21:57 +00:00
Paul Eggert 7244117ba2 Regenerate. 2005-02-21 08:26:21 +00:00
Jim Meyering 017b3436b8 . 2005-02-13 08:15:24 +00:00
Jim Meyering 4738975f66 . 2005-02-09 09:58:07 +00:00
Paul Eggert 333b98170f (stat invocation): Document stat -f -c %S (versus %s). 2005-02-08 21:38:04 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6eb5971afe (stat invocation): Normalize terminology,
capitalization, and sort order to match --help output.  Mention %c
for file systems.  Say that %s is the "Fundamental block size",
since that is what POSIX says.
2005-02-08 20:44:28 +00:00
Jim Meyering 1f1da5a429 . 2005-01-29 00:21:24 +00:00
Paul Eggert ff67f295e4 Update copyright date. 2005-01-10 18:12:35 +00:00
Paul Eggert 23c6e3110e Document changes responding to POSIX interpretations about pathchk -p
dated 2005-01-06.
2005-01-10 18:08:12 +00:00
Jim Meyering 4f9e5eda45 Correct last change: s/zero/no/ From Paul Jarc. 2005-01-07 20:10:15 +00:00
Jim Meyering 21437738fc *** empty log message *** 2005-01-07 18:25:47 +00:00
Jim Meyering a9f66aa921 (sort invocation): Specify that a string of zero digits is interpreted as 0. 2005-01-07 18:24:23 +00:00
Jim Meyering 215763dd17 *** empty log message *** 2005-01-04 18:29:42 +00:00
Jim Meyering eefe4137fb * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Clarify that shred works fine
with journaled file systems that are configured not to journal
	file system data.  Also mention BFS and NTFS.
2005-01-04 18:29:38 +00:00
Paul Eggert a9626a5d81 Regenerate. 2005-01-03 23:50:12 +00:00
Paul Eggert 96742fffc4 Regenerate. 2004-12-20 08:02:53 +00:00
Paul Eggert 4d2bb0f15f * coreutils.texi: Fix minor problems in "ls" and "dircolors". 2004-12-15 22:08:29 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6627d41367 (ls invocation): Change minor problem to be
"subdirectory not found", since top-level trouble is now serious.
(dircolors invocation): Quote argument to eval.  Problem reported
by Stephane Chazelas.
2004-12-15 22:08:07 +00:00
Paul Eggert 206ec55a41 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Blank separators need quoting. 2004-12-12 07:25:01 +00:00
Paul Eggert e31480005a (join invocation): Mention that blank separators
in the -o option need to be quoted.
2004-12-12 07:24:31 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9278bc44cd * coreutils.texi (id invocation): -G also prints main group. 2004-12-11 00:09:29 +00:00
Paul Eggert d34fd3ed23 (id invocation): -G also prints main group. 2004-12-11 00:09:07 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5ff0e88866 ls now exits with status 1 if minor problem, 2 on serious trouble. 2004-12-09 17:51:23 +00:00
Paul Eggert 1782c40176 (ls invocation): Document new "ls" exit status. 2004-12-09 17:50:54 +00:00
Paul Eggert a00580a677 (Time of day items, Time zone items):
Describe new formats +00:00, UTC+00:00.
2004-12-08 22:27:12 +00:00
Paul Eggert 9d683a1b65 Add support for time zones like +HH:MM and UTC+HH:MM. 2004-12-08 22:26:37 +00:00
Jim Meyering 821a730797 *** empty log message *** 2004-12-04 14:23:51 +00:00
Jim Meyering b4c28f911e (cut invocation): Say when --complement is useful. 2004-12-04 14:23:48 +00:00
Jim Meyering f049ac4acc *** empty log message *** 2004-12-04 13:33:11 +00:00
Jim Meyering ba23d0aa8d *** empty log message *** 2004-12-04 13:32:53 +00:00
Jim Meyering 4ed96077e8 . 2004-11-30 14:58:46 +00:00
Jim Meyering b174e49170 . 2004-11-28 21:01:03 +00:00
Paul Eggert 1c42e10a79 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): Minor cleanups. 2004-11-27 09:37:42 +00:00
Paul Eggert 57fbaa8a74 (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".
2004-11-27 09:37:22 +00:00
Paul Eggert 6942c45d50 Regenerate. 2004-11-26 08:11:52 +00:00
Paul Eggert 2852d59d22 (dd invocation): Add noctty flag to dd. 2004-11-20 08:56:05 +00:00
Paul Eggert 5f2cb6ee45 doc patches inspired by Debian coreutils 5.2.1-2. 2004-11-16 20:31:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert 4aaf33c29e (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.
2004-11-16 20:29:58 +00:00
Paul Eggert 511f4b4165 * getdate.texi (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2. 2004-11-16 08:18:05 +00:00
Paul Eggert 37c8b2b848 (General date syntax): "next" is 1, not 2.
Document that "second" isn't allowed as an ordinal number.
2004-11-16 08:16:57 +00:00
Paul Eggert 1855111a62 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Reword the new dd message. 2004-11-16 07:49:15 +00:00