1 2003-01-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Describe new functionality of
4 --output-delimiter=STR.
6 2003-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
8 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Give an example of using cut -c
9 with an output delimiter. From Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
11 * coreutils.texi (The cut command): Extend the new example a little.
12 (Formatting file timestamps): Fix typo: s/%M:S/%M:%S/.
14 * coreutils.texi: Change each use of `Core-utils' to `Coreutils'.
17 2003-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
19 * coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Document new option:
20 --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir.
22 2003-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
24 Change ls -H back to the way it was yesterday, since this is
25 compatible with FreeBSD and the POSIX spec is confusing
26 and somewhat contradictory.
28 * doc/coreutils.texi (Which files are listed, General output
29 formatting): Undo last change.
31 2003-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
33 * coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Reflect option name change:
34 s/--dereference-command-line/--dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir/.
35 Say that this option changes how ls treats only symlinks to directories
36 specified on the command line.
38 2002-08-27 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
40 * coreutils.texi: Document readlink.
42 2002-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
44 * coreutils.texi (mknod invocation): Specify how major and minor mode
45 numbers are interpreted. Report forwarded by Kristin E Thomas.
47 2002-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
49 * coreutils.texi (Examples of expr): Remove bogus `^'s.
50 Reported by Thomas Goerlich.
52 2002-11-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
54 * coreutils.texi (What information is listed) [--dired]:
55 Correct parts of --dired description. Reported by Andre Spiegel.
56 Include a lot more description, with examples.
58 2002-11-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
60 * coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Fix typo in index:
61 change \0x prefix to \x.
64 2002-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
66 Add support for locale-specific size indications (e.g.,
67 thousands-separators) and for explicit size suffixes on output.
69 * coreutils.texi (Block size): Say that:
70 This affects display format as well as block size.
71 Fractional block counts are rounded up.
72 ls file size blocksize defaults to 1.
73 A block size spec preceded by ' generates thousands separators.
74 A suffix without a preceding integer generates suffixes.
75 (tail invocation): 32k -> 32 KiB.
76 (What information is listed): ls -h is now equivalent to
77 ls --block-size=human, and ls -H is now equivalent to
78 ls --block-size=si. Displayed file size is now always affected by
81 2002-09-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
83 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
84 NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
85 (stat invocation): Remove references to now-removed %S and %C.
86 (Time directives) [%S]: Explain why the range is [0..60].
88 2002-08-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
90 * coreutils.texi [START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY]: Don't use sc{} on LHS.
91 Fix typo: s/permission/permissions/. From Michail Litvak.
93 2002-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
95 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): uniq now obeys LC_COLLATE.
97 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
99 * coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Change behavior to conform to
101 - Do not adjust scheduling priority.
102 - Redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal.
103 - Exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked,
104 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found.
106 2002-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
108 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Document %P, %R, %e, %F,
111 2002-07-22 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
113 * coreutils.texi (Formatting the file names): Document
114 that -N/--literal are equivalent to --quoting-style=literal.
115 Reported by Oskar Liljeblad as Debian bug#103612.
117 2002-07-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
119 * coreutils.texi (du invocation): s/PAT/PATTERN/.
120 From Martin Michlmayr.
122 2002-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
124 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Remove unnecessary "$@" in example;
125 Texinfo would render the @" as an umlaut over the following character.
127 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Check for the above.
129 2002-07-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
131 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Remove description of --secure.
133 2002-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
135 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Rename --link/-l
136 to --dereference/-L. Rewrite description of --dereference.
138 2002-06-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
140 * coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Don't mention egrep,
141 since it's not part of POSIX 1003.1-2001.
143 2002-06-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
145 * coreutils.texi (stat invocation): New section. From Michael Meskes.
147 2002-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
149 * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document new option: --author.
151 2002-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
153 * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Add the warning (also in the --help
154 output) that the contents of a removed file are often recoverable.
156 2002-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
158 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Adapt to reflect that now we use
161 2002-05-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
163 * coreutils.texi: Use @acronym in place of most uses of @sc.
164 * getdate.texi (Date input formats): Likewise.
166 2002-04-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
168 * coreutils.texi: Change `@code{PROG}' to `@command{PROG}'.
170 2002-04-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
172 * coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Document the above.
173 Document POSIX signals better.
175 2002-04-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
177 * coreutils.texi: Document kill.
178 Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
180 2002-04-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
182 * coreutils.texi: Document link and unlink.
184 2002-04-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
186 * coreutils.texi: Use new directives, @copying and @insertcopying,
187 thus now requiring texinfo-4.2 to create the .info file.
189 2002-02-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
191 * coreutils.texi (File characteristic tests): Document the
192 behavior of test -nt and -ot when one of the files does not exist,
193 using the same behavior that is documented in ksh93.
195 2002-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
197 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Say that selected input is
198 written in the same order that it is read, and is written
201 2002-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
203 Make cp -r equivalent to cp -R. Add a new cp option --copy-contents
204 for people who want to emulate the traditional (and rarely desirable)
207 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document this.
208 Fix some related minor bugs: --no-dereference is no longer
209 equivalent to -d, and --archive (-a) can override the other
210 symlink options. Warn that cp -R is not portable on symbolic
211 links unless you also specify -P.
213 2002-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
215 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document that cp -r
216 preserves symlinks. Emphasize non-portability of cp -r.
218 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
220 * coreutils.texi (Time directives): Add %N for nanoseconds.
221 This documents the recent change to 'ls'.
223 2002-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
225 * coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Reword to avoid using `:'
226 in an @opindex entry -- info doesn't permit it.
228 2002-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
230 * coreutils.texi (Formatting file timestamps): Document new
231 time-formatting method: --time-style=+FORMAT.
233 2002-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
235 * coreutils.texi (seq invocation): In the example, use "tail
236 -n 3", not "tail -3", to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
238 2002-02-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
240 * coreutils.texi (tsort background): New section.
241 From Ian Lance Taylor.
242 (tsort invocation): Add a more realistic example.
244 2002-02-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
246 * coreutils.texi: Document _POSIX2_VERSION.
247 (Standards Conformance): New section.
249 2002-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
251 * coreutils.texi (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY): Remove a few entries
252 and clean up a few others based on suggestions from Bob Proulx.
254 2002-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
256 Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001, which requires removal for
257 support of obsolete "+" option syntax in sort, tail, and uniq.
258 * coreutils.texi: Document this. (Also, document a similar
259 change to "touch", for fileutils).
261 2002-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
263 * coreutils.texi (shred invocation): List some journaled filesystems.
265 2001-11-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
267 * coreutils.texi (Date directives): Document %u.
269 2001-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
271 * coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Give examples.
272 Thanks to Dan Jacobson for suggesting the examples.
274 2001-11-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
276 * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C,
277 not LC_COLLATE=C. Explain how the latter can cause problems.
278 Based on a message from Paul Eggert.
279 (ls invocation): Recommend setting LC_ALL=C, not LC_COLLATE=C.
281 2001-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
283 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe --reply=...
285 2001-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
287 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): `cp --no-dereference' is
288 no longer equivalent to `cp -d'.
289 `cp -d' is equivalent to `--no-dereference --preserve=links'.
290 cp's -P option means --no-dereference, not --parents.
291 Describe new optional argument to --preserve.
292 Describe new option: --no-preserve=ATTRIBUTE_LIST.
294 2001-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
296 * Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Redirect stderr of `grep -w' to
297 /dev/null, so people with old versions of grep don't see the failure.
299 2001-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
301 * coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Describe new option:
302 --reply={yes,no,query}. Fix a few typos.
304 2001-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
306 * coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): The input need not
307 be sorted. Try to clarify -d versus -D versus -u.
309 2001-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
311 * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document new option: -F.
314 2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
316 * coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the GNU
317 extension to join, which does not require sorted input when
318 the input contains no unpairable lines.
320 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
323 New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform,
324 and -o or --operating-system.
325 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end.
326 New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v.
327 Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release,
328 and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name;
329 the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented.
331 2001-08-24 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
333 * coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Document how cut treats lines
336 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
338 * coreutils.texi: expr now uses LC_COLLATE for string comparison,
341 2001-08-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
343 * coreutils.texi: Use @option, rather than @samp everywhere.
345 2001-06-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
347 * coreutils.texi: 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote'
350 2001-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
352 * coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reflect 2001-07-08 change to
355 2001-06-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
357 * Makefile.am (info_TEXINFOS): Reflect renaming: s/omni-/core/.
358 * coreutils.texi: Likewise.
360 * coreutils.texi: New, renamed from omni-utils.texi.
361 * omni-utils.texi: Removed, renamed to coreutils.texi.
363 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Mention the effect of locale.
364 Reported by Keith Thompson.
366 2001-05-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
368 * texinfo.tex: Update from master source.
370 * omni-utils.texi (ls invocation): Document more clearly what ls
371 does when given no arguments.
373 2001-05-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
375 * textutils.texi: Remove file.
377 * Makefile.am ($(DVIS), $(INFO_DEPS)): Depend on $(EXTRA_DIST).
378 (DISABLED_constants.texi): New rule -- disabled for now.
380 This directory is now shared by fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils.