* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document the "c-maybe"
--quoting-style, which was added as an option in 2008.
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/1074334
Problem reported by Dan Jaobson (Bug#71171).
* doc/coreutils.texi: Clarify that directory entries are sorted,
not command-line arguments.
* src/ls.c (usage): Be less chatty about -U and
about --group-directories-first.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Give a DSU example
for sorting names which may have a variable number of fields.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/70532
Using the shell's exec -a feature can be awkward
so add support for setting overriding argv[0].
This gives env full control over the arguments it passes.
* src/env.c: Accept -a,--argv0 and set argv[0] appropriately.
* tests/env/env.sh: Add test cases.
* doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Describe -a,--argv0.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Explicitly state that
multicolumn output will convert spaces to TABs, and show that
this can be undone with the `pr -t -e` or `expand` commands.
Suggested by Douglas McIlroy in https://bugs.gnu.org/69807
* src/copy.h (struct cp_options): New member 'exchange'.
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Support the new member.
* src/mv.c (EXCHANGE_OPTION): New constant.
(long_options): Add --exchange.
(usage): Document --exchange.
(main): Support --exchange.
* tests/mv/mv-exchange.sh: New test case.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.
There have been various requests to add -h to avoid following symlinks
for security reasons. This wasn't provided previously as chmod(1)
already ignored symlinks unless specified on the command line.
Note chmod defaults to -H mode rather than the chown default of -P,
as usually chown can work directly on symlinks and so defaults
to not traversing those specified on the command line.
Note FreeBSD chmod does default to -P mode, but we retain the -H mode
default also for compatibility with existing chmod behavior.
Adding -HLP will allow chmod to disable traversing CLI symlinks to dirs.
Adding -h will allow to disable following CLI symlinks to files/dirs,
also operating on all symlinks on systems that support that.
Adding --dereference will be significant with -H (the default). I.e.
symlinks to dirs not recursed, but symlinks are dereferenced.
Adding these options will also be consistent with chown(1), chgrp(1),
and chmod(1) on other systems.
Note since chmod(1) currently ignores symlinks by default,
and -h is primarily a mechanism to avoid following symlinks, rather than
for operating on the symlink itself, we make -h try to chmod a symlink,
but ignore ENOTSUP. In that way we're consistent with chown(1)
where it also ignores ENOTSUP for symlinks, and we don't fail when
trying to be extra secure with command line params.
* doc/coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Reference the -H,-L,-P
descriptions, and adjust the corresponding macros to say
the default is -H or -P as appropriate.
Add --dereference and -h,--no-dereference descriptions.
* man/chmod.x: Adjust discussion of symlink handling.
* src/chmod.c (main): Accept new options and set
fts flags appropriately.
(process_file): Process / dereference symlinks as necessary.
* src/system.h (emit_symlink_recurse_options): A new function
refactored from chown.c and chmod.c usage().
* tests/chmod/symlinks.sh: New test for the new options.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Behave like who(1) in requiring --lookup to enable this
often slow feature. pinky(1) is supposed to be lightweight after all.
* doc/coreutils.texi (who invocation): Adjust the description to no
longer reference dialup, and be more general about the still significant
delays.
(pinky invocation): Reference the same --lookup description.
* src/pinky.c (main): Accept --lookup to enable DNS lookups.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.debian.org/628815
Following v5.2.1-679-g7e29ef8b8 symlinks specified on the command line
no longer induce an error if lchown() is not supported on the system.
* doc/coreutils.texi (chown invocation, chgrp invocation): Adjust
accordingly, and also use a macro to avoid duplication.
* src/chown-core.c: Use our more standard is_ENOTSUP() wrapper
in the code related to this.
Since this functionality is recently available
in the exch(1) utility from util-linux,
it was thought best not to complicate mv with it.
This reverts commit 6cd2d5e533
renameat2() syscall allows atomically swapping 2 paths on one
file system. Expose this ability to the user with --swap.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe mv --swap option.
* src/mv.c (main): Support --swap.
* tests/mv/mv-swap.sh: Add test for mv -x.
* tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new option.
* src/cp.c (main): Add support for --update=none-fail to provide the
functionality of diagnosing files in the destination,
and exiting with failure status.
(usage): Mark -n as deprecated.
* src/mv.c: Likewise.
* src/copy.h: Add UPDATE_NONE_FAIL definition.
* src/system.h (emit_update_parameters_note): Add --update=none-fail
description.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Likewise.
Also mention why -n is deprecated.
* tests/mv/update.sh: Add a test case, including precedence
with -n and other --update options.
* tests/cp/cp-i.sh: Verify that --backup and --update=none{,-fail}
are mutually exclusive.
* tests/mv/mv-n.sh: Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/62572
When recursively copying files into OS trees, it often happens that
some subdirectory of the source directory is a symlink in the target
directory. Currently, cp will fail in that scenario with the error:
"cannot overwrite non-directory %s with directory %s"
However, we'd like cp in this scenario to follow the destination
directory symlink and copy the files into the symlinked directory
instead. Let's support this by adding a new option
--keep-directory-symlink that makes cp follow destination directory
symlinks.
We name the option --keep-directory-symlink to keep consistent with
tar which has the same option with the same effect.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new option.
* src/copy.h: Add the new setting.
* src/copy.h: Adjust to follow symlinks if setting enabled.
* src/cp.c (usage): Describe the new option.
(main): Accept the new option.
* tests/cp/keep-directory-symlink.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Fix the example
to correctly close file descriptor 3.
* THANKS.in: Remove old email since now recorded in repo history.
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/1063837
Update to latest gnulib with new copyright year.
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* gnulib: Update included in this commit as copyright years
are the only change from the previous gnulib commit.
* tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
* bootstrap: Manually update copyright year,
until we fully sync with gnulib at a later stage.
* tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Reference the related --update
option, like we had already done in mv invocation.
* src/cp.c (usage): State clearly what --no-clobber does,
indicating it's protection focused, rather than being update focused.
* doc/coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Convert --from option
description to a macro and call from ...
(chgrp description): ... here.
* src/chown-core.h (emit_from_option_description): A new function
refactored from ...
* src/chown.c (usage): ... here, and called from ...
* src/chgrp.c (usage): ... here.
(main): Accept the --from option as chown(1) does.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add chown-core.h as now translated.
* tests/chown/basic.sh: Decouple the root user from id 0.
* tests/chgrp/from.sh: A new test largely based on chown/basic.sh.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Suggested by Ed Neville.
The description of -f regressed in coreutils 9.0
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Detail which options
are enabled/disabled with -f.
* src/ls.c (usage): Likewise.
(decode_switches): Update comments.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/67765
For consistency with the "SI" standard, and with other coreutils
which output a lowercase 'k' in "SI" mode.
* src/numfmt.c (suffix_power): Treat 'k' like 'K' on input.
(double_to_human): Output lowercase 'k' in SI mode.
(usage): Adjust accordingly.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention 'k' accepted, and printed in SI mode.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Adjust accordingly.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/47103
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove c32isprint.
* src/wc.c (wc): Consider all non-white-space characters
to be word constituents, even if they are not printable.
POSIX requires this, and it is what BSD does.
Partly do this by simplifying the check for a word,
by counting word starts rather than word ends.
* tests/wc/wc.pl: Test for the bug.
tail can watch multiple files, but currently only a single writer. It
can be useful to watch files from multiple writers, or even processes
not directly related to the files (e.g. watch log files written by a
server process, for the duration of a test driven by a separate
client).
* src/tail.c (writers_are_dead): New function.
(tail_forever): Use it to wait for writers.
(tail_forever_inotify): As above.
(parse_options): Manage --pid options in an array.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Update documentation.
* tests/tail/pid.sh: Add a variant with two PIDs.
* News: Mention the new feature.
Currently --dired is silently ignored
with conflicting output formats
* src/ls.c (decode_switches): Set default format and hyperlink mode
when the --dired option is specified.
* tests/ls/dired.sh: Check that formats are implied / overridden.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Adjust --dired description.
Most of this just affects commentary and documentations. The only
significant behavior change is translating author names via
proper_name_lite rather than proper_name_utf8, or not translating
them at all. proper_name_lite is good enough for coreutils and
avoids the bloat that had coreutils not using Gnulib proper_name.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use propername-lite instead
of propername.
(XGETTEXT_OPTIONS): Look for proper_name_lite instead of for
proper_name_utf8.
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove
sc_proper_name_utf8_requires_ICONV, since we no longer use
proper_name_utf8.
(old_NEWS_hash): Update.
(sc_check-I18N-AUTHORS): Remove; no longer needed.
Following commit v9.3-80-g5e1e0993b which makes cksum
match the output of the standalone utilities...
* doc/coreutils.texi (cksum output modes): Remove the mention
that cksum never outputs a binary indicator, as that's no longer the
case.
* tests/cksum/b2sum.sh: Avoid outputting a binary indicator.
* tests/cksum/sm3sum.pl: Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Reorg so that 'cksum invocation' is the
main node listing all options and output formats, which is then
referenced by the descriptions of the standalone utilities.
Use macros in the description of the standalone utilities
rather than referencing 'md5sum invocation' to be more direct.
tail -n/-c +NUM, is different from tail -n/-c NUM,
and head -n/-c NUM, and head -n/c -NUM, in that it
specifies a 1 based index rather than a count to skip/include.
So clarify this in tail --help and tail info manual.
Note we also mention this gotcha at:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#tail
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Give examples for -c/-n +NUM,
to make it clear one has to specify a number 1 larger than
might be expected.
* src/tail.c (usage): State the skip at start edge case more clearly
in the -n description. -c is not often used with tail so we leave
full explanation of that to the info manual. Also split the string
to simplify translation.
* src/digest.c (digest_check): Also escape in the case that the
file name contains '\'.
* tests/cksum/md5sum-bsd.sh: Add a test case.
* doc/coreutils.texi (md5um invocation): Clarify escaping operation.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/64392
* src/dd.c (parse_integer): Use recursion to support more than two
multipliers. Also protect suffix[-1] access to ensure we don't
inspect before the passed string.
* tests/dd/bytes.sh: Add test cases.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Note the support for specifying
many multipliers in a number.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes https://bugs.debian.org/1037275
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Remove mention of ASCII,
as all printable characters in unibyte locales are output.
* src/od.c (usage): Clarify that only NUL terminated strings
are displayed, and that it's printable chars, not only graphic chars
that are output. I.e., spaces are output also if part of the string.
Reported at https://bugs.ddebian.org/1037217
Add --update=none which is equivalent to the --no-clobber behavior
from before coreutils 9.2. I.e. existing files are unconditionally
skipped, and them not being replaced does not affect the exit status.
* src/copy.h [enum Update_type]: A new type to support parameters
to the --update command line option.
[enum Interactive]: Add I_ALWAYS_SKIP.
* src/copy.c: Treat I_ALWAYS_SKIP like I_ALWAYS_NO (-n),
except that we don't fail when skipping.
* src/system.h (emit_update_parameters_note): A new function
to output the description of the new --update parameters.
* src/cp.c (main): Parse --update arguments, ensuring that
-n takes precedence if specified.
(usage): Describe the new option. Also allude that
-u is related in the -n description.
* src/mv.c: Accept the new --update parameters and
update usage() accordingly.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new --update
parameters. Also reference --update from the --no-clobber description.
(mv invocation): Likewise.
* tests/mv/update.sh: Test the new parameters.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/62572
