Re: A request for addition of a command

[Jim Meyering]

Kamil Dudka wrote:
> Looks good. What about updating info documentation, too? Incremental patch
> attached.

Thanks!
How about this?
[added log and a cindex entry]

>From 9f9e2d81d1cbb7a4d2761cde3265d399f7c274d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kamil Dudka <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:25:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve readlink description here, too

* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Update menus.
Add @cindex entries.
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 doc/coreutils.texi |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 61361ab..4599a27 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Top
 * mkdir invocation::            Make directories
 * mkfifo invocation::           Make FIFOs (named pipes)
 * mknod invocation::            Make block or character special files
-* readlink invocation::         Print the referent of a symbolic link
+* readlink invocation::         Print value of a symlink or canonical file name
 * rmdir invocation::            Remove empty directories
 * unlink invocation::           Remove files via unlink syscall

@@ -8683,7 +8683,7 @@ Special file types
 * mkdir invocation::            Make directories.
 * mkfifo invocation::           Make FIFOs (named pipes).
 * mknod invocation::            Make block or character special files.
-* readlink invocation::         Print the referent of a symbolic link.
+* readlink invocation::         Print value of a symlink or canonical file 
name.
 * rmdir invocation::            Remove empty directories.
 * unlink invocation::           Remove files via the unlink syscall
 @end menu
@@ -9128,10 +9128,12 @@ mknod invocation


 @node readlink invocation
address@hidden @command{readlink}: Print the referent of a symbolic link
address@hidden @command{readlink}: Print value of a symlink or canonical file 
name

 @pindex readlink
 @cindex displaying value of a symbolic link
address@hidden canonical file name
address@hidden canonicalize a file name

 @command{readlink} may work in one of two supported modes:

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