Wishlist item from Mike Frysinger (Bug#61050).
* src/copy.c (copy_internal):
Do not fall back on copying if x->no_copy.
* src/copy.h (struct cp_options): New member no_copy.
* src/mv.c (NO_COPY_OPTION): New constant.
(long_options, usage, main): Support --no-copy.
* tests/mv/no-copy.sh: New test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.
* src/dd.c (parse_integer): Support Q,R suffixes.
* src/od.c (main): Likewise.
* src/split.c (main): Likewise.
* src/stdbuf.c (parse_size): Likewise.
* src/truncate.c (main): Likewise.
* src/sort.c (specify_size_size): Likewise.
Also line length syntax check fix.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Adust top end large number checks
to the new largest values.
* doc/coreutils.texi (numfmt invocation): Add a numfmt example.
* NEWS: Tweak to aid searchability.
* src/dd, src/head.c, src/od.c, src/sort.c, src/stdbuf.c, src/tail.c:
(usage):
* src/system.h (emit_size_note):
Mention new SI prefixes.
* src/du.c (main):
* src/head.c (head_file):
* src/numfmt.c (suffix_power, suffix_power_char, prepare_padded_number):
* src/shred.c (main):
* src/sort.c (unit_order):
* src/tail.c (parse_options):
Support new SI prefixes.
* src/numfmt.c (MAX_ACCEPTABLE_DIGITS): Increase to 33.
(zero_and_valid_suffixes, valid_suffixes): New constants,
with new SI prefixes.
(valid_suffix, unit_to_umax): Use them.
(prepare_padded_number): Diagnose "999Q" instead of "999Y".
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl, tests/misc/sort.pl:
Adjust tests to match new max.
Update to latest gnulib with new copyright year.
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* 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, doc/sort-version.texi: Prefer on "x -- y" to
"x---y" in prose, as the result is more readable in Emacs.
Fix some instances of unescaped ‘-’ that should be minus, not
hyphen. Fix some other instances that should be en dash. No
spaces around en dash when it’s a range.
* cfg.mk (sc_texi_long_option_escaped): A new check to
avoid future instances of this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): Rearrange this menu
to be less repetitive in each description, and avoid long lines.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/59262
Problem reported by Antonio Diaz Diaz (bug#59262).
* doc/coreutils.texi: Use markup in menus to prevent
‘--’ from turning into an em dash, and to be more
consistent.
Note using iconv(1) rather than recode(1) is not appropriate
for this example, as the required functionality is only
available on libiconv's iconv implementation, which is
not installed on most systems.
* doc/coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Use env rather than
/usr/local/bin for the printf command. Escape '%' so more robust.
Also use a locale that exists on modern systems.
Previously this was restricted to the C99 universal character subset,
which restricted most values <= 0x9F, as that simplifies the C lexer.
However printf(1) doesn't need this restriction.
Note also the bash builtin printf already supports all values <= 0x9F.
* src/printf.c (main): Relax the restriction on points <= 0x9F.
* doc/coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Adjust description.
* tests/misc/printf-cov.pl: Adjust accordingly. Add new cases.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/1022857
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention in the
multi invocation sort example that the -V GNU extension
could be used to sort IPv4 addresses, and thus simplify
to a single invocation.
* src/system.h (emit_exec_status): A new function to
output standard "Exit status:" info for commands that exec others.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Exit status): Add "ls" and "runcon"
to the list of commands with non standard exit status.
* src/numfmt.c (main): Call initialize_exit_failure() explicitly
to better indicate this utility may exit with something other than
EXIT_FAILURE.
* src/timeout.c (usage): Use more consistent capitalization.
* src/chroot.c: Call emit_exec_status().
* src/env.c: Likewise.
* src/nice.c: Likewise.
* src/nohup.c: Likewise.
* src/runcon.c: Likewise.
* src/stdbuf.c: Likewise.
without this option, control of when the total is output
is quite awkward. Consider trying to suppress the total line,
which could be achieved with something like:
wc-no-total() { wc "$@" /dev/null | head -n-2; }
As well as being non obvious, it's also non general.
It would give a non failure, but zero count if passed a file on stdin.
Also it doesn't work in conjunction with the --files0-from option,
which would need to be handled differently with something like:
{ find files -print0; printf '%s\0' /dev/null; } |
wc --files0-from=- |
head -n2
Also getting just the total can be awkward as file names
are only suppressed when processing stdin, and
also a total line is only printed if processing more than one file.
For completness this might be achieved currently with:
wc-only-total() {
wc "$@" |
tail -n1 |
sed 's/^ *//; s/ [^ 0-9]*$//'
}
* src/wc.c: Add new --total option.
* tests/misc/wc-total.sh: New test suite for the new option.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* doc/coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Document the new option.
* THANKS.in: Add suggestor.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Say that "drain"
is treated as an option, rather than a line setting,
and so option processing rules apply to it.
Reported in https://bugs.debian.org/1018803
* src/comm.c (compare_files): Handle the single character
--output-delimeter case separately so that NUL is appropriately
handled.
* doc/coreutils.texi (comm invocation): Fix the description
of --output-delimiter to say an empty delimeter is treated
as a NUL separator, rather than being disallowed.
* tests/misc/comm.pl: Add a test case.
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/1014008
* src/runcon.c: Use EXIT_CANCELED (125) instead of EXIT_FAILURE (1),
so that errors specific to runcon can be distinguished,
from those of the invoked program.
* doc/coreutils.texi (runcon invocation): Fix the Exit status
description to say we return 125 (not 127) for internal errors.
* tests/misc/runcon-no-reorder.sh: Add a test case.
* src/ls.c (usage): Don't mention "modification" in the
description of ctime (-c), as it's confusing with mtime.
Mention "metadata" when discussing "change" time to
disambiguate from data change time.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): State that --time=creation
falls back to using mtime where not available.
This behaviour is correctly documented when doing `cp --help`.
There is no `--reflink=when` option.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Fix document stating
that `--reflink` is equivalent to `--reflink=always`.
It's useful to treat empty and missing arguments differently.
Missing means all signals, while empty means no signals and
so is a no-op. It's useful to treat empty arguments like
this, so that dynamically specified arguments like the following
are supported
env --ignore-signals "$SIGS_TO_IGNORE"
Note `env --ignore-signals=` is treated as an empty argument.
* doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Empty args are treated
differently to missing arguments, so call that out explicitly.
* src/env.c (usage): Likewise.
Addresses https://bugs.debian.org/1016049
* src/date.c (usage): Specify that --date, --file, --reference,
and --resolution are mutually exclusive. This is also useful
documentation to group similar options.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Likewise.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/55401
When factoring numbers that have a large 2^n factor, it can be hard to
eyeball just how many 2's there are. Add an option to print each prime
power factor in the p^e format (omitting the exponent when it is 1).
* src/factor.c: Add -h, --exponents option for printing in p^e format.
* doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation): Document the new option.
* tests/misc/factor.pl: Add test case.
* THANKS.in: Add previous suggester
(https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2017-11/msg00015.html).
Suggested-by: Emanuel Landeholm <emanuel.landeholm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
* doc/coreutils.texi: Set txicodequoteundirected and
txicodequotebacktick so that ' and ` in code examples appear
as-is, rather than being transliterated to ’ and ‘. E.g., prefer
“... this is equivalent to ‘tr '\303\266' '\305\201'’ and ...” to
“... this is equivalent to ‘tr ’\303\266’ ’\305\201’’ and ...”
in PDF output.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Character arrays): Avoid using shell
notation like $'\u7530' since this isn’t in POSIX yet. Instead,
use ö and Ł which should work in all texinfo output formats.
This option has changed from ignoring only ENOTEMPTY|EEXIST
(i.e. ignore errors _solely_ due to dir not empty),
to ignoring some other errors from more protected dirs
that are not empty. That adjustment was made to better
support use with --parents, to essentially remove as much of
a hierarchy as possible, without erroring as we hit more
protected non empty parent dirs.
That functionality adjustment was originally discussed at:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00283.html
* src/rmdir.c (usage): Adjust to be more accurate to current behavior.
Also adjust --parents option to be easier to read.
* doc/coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Likewise.
Reported at https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/40
Avoid "Unicode character U+#1 not supported, sorry" error
when converting from texi to dvi or pdf.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Avoid the @U{XXXX}
texi representation, as even though info and html can represent
these characters directly, there are conversion errors
for pdf and dvi. Instead use the more abstract shell
$'\uXXXX' representation.
* doc/coreutils.texi (install invocation): For the --compare option,
clarify that the ownership or permissions of the source files don't
matter. Also don't imply --owner or --group need to be specified
for --compare to be effective.
* src/install.c (usage): Add more detail on what's being compared.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/50889
* src/test.c (usage): State that -rwx is determined by
user access, rather than permission bits.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Access permission tests): Likewise.
* man/test.x [SEE ALSO]: access(2).
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54338
Revert to the default behavior before the introduction of statx().
* src/stat.c (do_stat): Set AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT without --cached=never.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Mention the automount
behavior with --cached=never.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54287
This implements my suggestion in Bug#54112.
* src/dd.c (usage): Document the change.
(parse_integer, scanargs): Implement the change.
Omit some now-obsolete checks for invalid flags.
* tests/dd/bytes.sh: Test the new behavior, while retaining
checks for the now-obsolete usage.
* tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Avoid now-obsolete usage.
Alias iseek=N to skip=N, oseek=N to seek=N (Bug#45648).
* src/dd.c (scanargs): Parse iseek= and oseek=.
* tests/dd/skip-seek.pl (sk-seek5): New test case.
Problem reported by Dan Jacobson (Bug#48248).
* doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Improve documentation for
tr's failure to support multibyte characters POSIX-style.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation), src/tr.c (usage):
Use terminology closer to POSIX's.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dircolors invocation): Describe the new
--print-ls-colors option.
* src/dircolors.c (print_ls_colors): A new global to select
between shell or terminal output.
(append_entry): A new function refactored from dc_parse_stream()
to append the entry in the appropriate format.
(dc_parse_stream): Adjust to call append_entry().
* tests/misc/dircolors.pl: Add test cases.
This also affects ls -v in some corner cases.
Problems reported by Michael Debertol <https://bugs.gnu.org/49239>.
While looking into this, I spotted some more areas where the
code and documentation did not agree, or where the documentation
was unclear. In some cases I changed the code; in others
the documentation. I hope things are nailed down better now.
* doc/sort-version.texi: Distinguish more carefully between
characters and bytes. Say that non-identical strings can
compare equal, since they now can. Improve readability in
various ways. Make it clearer that a suffix can be the
entire string.
* src/ls.c (cmp_version): Fall back on strcmp if filevercmp
reports equality, since filevercmp is no longer a total order.
* src/sort.c (keycompare): Use filenvercmp, to treat NULs correctly.
* tests/misc/ls-misc.pl (v_files):
Adjust test to match new behavior.
* tests/misc/sort-version.sh: Add tests for stability,
and for sorting with NUL bytes.