Commit Graph

1222 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Eggert
5bc9231e76 (join invocation): Mention `sort -k 1b,1'. 2006-02-21 02:55:10 +00:00
Jim Meyering
33637fa804 *** empty log message *** 2006-02-20 16:50:14 +00:00
Jim Meyering
cdc9fa3b0c (rm invocation): Fix typo in last patch.
(paste invocation): Fix whitespace.
2006-02-20 16:50:11 +00:00
Jim Meyering
e8bf2b837f *** empty log message *** 2006-02-20 13:01:56 +00:00
Jim Meyering
0aed496787 (rm invocation): Document new -I option, and new --interactive behavior. 2006-02-20 13:01:51 +00:00
Jim Meyering
3f7e0c2173 . 2006-02-20 13:00:54 +00:00
Jim Meyering
a3057b4382 *** empty log message *** 2006-02-12 08:48:46 +00:00
Jim Meyering
8a52d68a72 (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
Mention that `\' also removes any special significance, so
is useful for [, ], *, -.  Prompted by Richard Neill in
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=14937
2006-02-12 08:48:42 +00:00
Jim Meyering
398c7ab669 (Character sets): Don't say that an unknown
backslash-escape causes an error message -- it doesn't.
2006-02-12 08:41:18 +00:00
Paul Eggert
32c694b908 (od invocation): Warn that -t a ignores the high order bit. 2006-02-02 07:45:21 +00:00
Paul Eggert
251468f113 (tail invocation): In the obsolete usage, the
count is optional, so put square brackets around it.
2006-01-31 01:38:05 +00:00
Jim Meyering
7dabfc7e73 . 2006-01-12 08:40:34 +00:00
Jim Meyering
084903a2b1 . 2006-01-04 21:06:39 +00:00
Paul Eggert
6023a62148 (General date syntax): Invalid dates are rejected.
(Time of day items): Mention the possibility of leap seconds.
Problem reported by Dr. David Alan Gilbert.
2006-01-03 06:00:10 +00:00
Paul Eggert
e1acba3234 Explain date %g, %G a bit better. 2006-01-03 00:46:11 +00:00
Paul Eggert
818f1e37c1 Use @acronym around "ISO" uniformly.
(Date conversion specifiers): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better.
2006-01-03 00:45:06 +00:00
Jim Meyering
5dc67d68b6 *** empty log message *** 2006-01-02 19:10:45 +00:00
Jim Meyering
f78f184a14 (tail invocation): Say that --retry
is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
2006-01-02 19:10:39 +00:00
Paul Eggert
6aab791a58 Fix typo in previous change. 2006-01-02 07:42:35 +00:00
Paul Eggert
c0dac69808 New approach to safer chmod. 2006-01-02 07:30:27 +00:00
Paul Eggert
ab21036d6d Clarify file mode bits versus file permission bits. 2006-01-02 07:29:46 +00:00
Paul Eggert
885cd884d4 Update copyright year. 2006-01-02 07:29:24 +00:00
Paul Eggert
9c2fded343 Clarify file mode bits versus file permission bits.
(mkfifo invocation, mknod invocation): -m affects only file permission bits.
2006-01-02 07:28:38 +00:00
Paul Eggert
c432136c3c (sort invocation): Clarify that by default a blank is a space or a tab. 2005-12-29 21:45:32 +00:00
Paul Eggert
b4c0a12e3b (sort invocation): Clarify that a blank is a space
or a tab.
2005-12-29 21:44:35 +00:00
Jim Meyering
1e1938032b . 2005-12-21 10:23:51 +00:00
Jim Meyering
26f5a6e03e *** empty log message *** 2005-12-17 10:50:04 +00:00
Jim Meyering
88c3a9be50 (stat invocation) [--printf]: Describe new option.
[--format]: Add example.  Distinguish from --printf.
Sort option descriptions.
2005-12-17 10:50:00 +00:00
Jim Meyering
c99e1d2cb6 . 2005-12-17 10:48:30 +00:00
Jim Meyering
2862dc7af9 *** empty log message *** 2005-12-17 10:47:37 +00:00
Jim Meyering
01a5f3830f (ls): Clarify the Alternate Access Method description.
(cp): Clarify that --preserve=mode also preserves acls.
2005-12-17 10:46:57 +00:00
Jim Meyering
049a807bc6 . 2005-12-15 14:47:36 +00:00
Paul Eggert
9df4b20557 (sort invocation): Clarify explanation of
--random-sort, and use a simpler example.
2005-12-12 22:42:16 +00:00
Paul Eggert
1f20820f7e Clarify sort -R. 2005-12-12 22:41:56 +00:00
Paul Eggert
f9b90d0739 Add sort -R. 2005-12-10 09:08:55 +00:00
Paul Eggert
e076a77851 (sort invocation): Add --random-sort (-R) and --seed. 2005-12-10 08:10:20 +00:00
Paul Eggert
f2ced93400 * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): New noatime flag. 2005-12-07 21:11:27 +00:00
Paul Eggert
0e91392981 (dd invocation): New noatime flag. 2005-12-07 21:11:14 +00:00
Jim Meyering
b3e300393e . 2005-12-03 23:19:58 +00:00
Paul Eggert
fc0fa751c4 Log today's changes. 2005-11-26 07:53:39 +00:00
Paul Eggert
7c69f05221 (df invocation): Document treatment of dummy file
systems better.
2005-11-26 07:52:43 +00:00
Jim Meyering
66878248f6 . 2005-11-22 15:33:39 +00:00
Paul Eggert
95c4014913 (tail invocation): Say that the obsolete form uses exactly one
option and at most one file.
2005-11-16 22:45:12 +00:00
Paul Eggert
9c0540b548 Improve quality of ln's diagnostics. 2005-11-16 22:33:37 +00:00
Paul Eggert
ace5616c61 (ln invocation): ln -v now outputs lines only for successful links. 2005-11-16 22:32:16 +00:00
Jim Meyering
a0d4d9ab95 (Mode Structure): Capitalize two sentences in an
enumerated list and fix a typo.  From Aaron Hawley.
2005-11-13 18:57:17 +00:00
Jim Meyering
fdbc317e46 *** empty log message *** 2005-11-13 18:57:03 +00:00
Paul Eggert
2aa901dadd ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', which in turn acts
like --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
2005-11-08 21:00:10 +00:00
Paul Eggert
9391b55213 (Formatting file timestamps): ls now defaults to
--time-style='locale', which in turn acts like
--time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up.
2005-11-08 20:59:19 +00:00
Paul Eggert
4b2069b57f rm -d no longer has any effect, and we plan to remove it (and maybe ln -d). 2005-11-02 21:56:49 +00:00