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Clean up indentation and punctuation.

Fix a couple typos.  From Brian Youmans.
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Jim Meyering
2000-10-31 22:03:42 +00:00
parent 933e0997e2
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
@ifinfo
This file documents the GNU shell utilities.
Copyright (C) 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ by the Foundation.
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright @copyright{} 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ independent way. For example, a string containing the Euro currency symbol
$ /usr/local/bin/printf '\u20AC 14.95'
@end example
@noindent
will be output correctly in all locales supporting the Euro symbol
(ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, and others). Similarly, a Chinese string
@@ -357,18 +358,19 @@ will be output correctly in all locales supporting the Euro symbol
$ /usr/local/bin/printf '\u4e2d\u6587'
@end example
will be output correctly in all chinese locales (GB2312, BIG5, UTF-8, etc).
@noindent
will be output correctly in all Chinese locales (GB2312, BIG5, UTF-8, etc).
Note that in these examples, the full pathname of @code{printf} has been
given, to distinguish it from the GNU @code{bash} builtin function
@code{printf}.
For larger strings, you don't need to look up the hexadecimal code values of
each character one by one. ASCII characters mixed with \u escape sequences
is also known as the JAVA source file encoding. You can use GNU recode 3.5c
(or newer) to convert strings to this encoding. Here is how to convert a
piece of text into a shell script which will output this text in a locale-
independent way:
For larger strings, you don't need to look up the hexadecimal code
values of each character one by one. ASCII characters mixed with \u
escape sequences is also known as the JAVA source file encoding. You can
use GNU recode 3.5c (or newer) to convert strings to this encoding. Here
is how to convert a piece of text into a shell script which will output
this text in a locale-independent way:
@smallexample
$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.big5 /usr/local/bin/printf \
@@ -2499,7 +2501,7 @@ time of @var{file}, instead of the current time and date.
@itemx --set=@var{datestr}
@opindex -s
@opindex --set
Set the time and date to @var{datestr}, See @samp{-d} above.
Set the time and date to @var{datestr}. See @samp{-d} above.
@item -u
@itemx --utc
@@ -2959,7 +2961,7 @@ nohup @var{command} [@var{arg}]@dots{}
@flindex nohup.out
@code{nohup} increases the scheduling priority of @var{command} by 5, so
it has a slightly smaller change to run. If standard output is a terminal,
it has a slightly smaller chance to run. If standard output is a terminal,
it and standard error are redirected so that they are appended to the
file @file{nohup.out}; if that cannot be written to, they are appended
to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}. If that cannot be written to, the
@@ -3338,11 +3340,11 @@ $ seq -s' ' 0 .1 .3
0 0.1 0.2
@end example
But doesn't happen on most systems because @code{seq} is implemented using
binary floating point arithmetic (via the C @code{double} type) -- which
means some decimal numbers like @code{.1} cannot be represented exactly.
That in turn means some nonintuitive conditions like @code{.1 * 3 > .3}
will end up being true.
But that doesn't happen on most systems because @code{seq} is
implemented using binary floating point arithmetic (via the C
@code{double} type) -- which means some decimal numbers like @code{.1}
cannot be represented exactly. That in turn means some nonintuitive
conditions like @code{.1 * 3 > .3} will end up being true.
To work around that in the above example, use a slightly larger number as
the @var{last} value: