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Re: table of contents of manual contains mistake


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: table of contents of manual contains mistake
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:29:42 +0100
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Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:34 +0100, "Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've just pushed:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=8aeda9b
> 
> Thanks.  Since that change versions 7.5 and 7.6 have been released, but
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html#toc_System-context
> still contains the mistake.  Apparently the online manual pages are not
> automatically regenerated after a release:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html#Top
> says it documents version 7.2.
> 
> By the way, the "Output of entire files" menu item there does not mention
> the base64 program, only "cat tac nl od".

I'm not sure who controls the gnu web site TBH but I'll ask around.
Good spot on "base64" being missing. So were "arch" and "readlink" which
I've added in the patch below. Hmm I just noticed link and unlink
are also missing so I'll see can I fit those in.

cheers,
Pádraig.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 21b3b52..2557e32 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Free Documentation License''.
 @menu
 * Introduction::                       Caveats, overview, and authors.
 * Common options::                     Common options.
-* Output of entire files::             cat tac nl od
+* Output of entire files::             cat tac nl od base64
 * Formatting file contents::           fmt pr fold
 * Output of parts of files::           head tail split csplit
 * Summarizing files::                  wc sum cksum md5sum sha1sum sha2
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Free Documentation License''.
 * Operating on characters::            tr expand unexpand
 * Directory listing::                  ls dir vdir dircolors
 * Basic operations::                   cp dd install mv rm shred
-* Special file types::                 ln mkdir rmdir mkfifo mknod
+* Special file types::                 ln mkdir rmdir mkfifo mknod readlink
 * Changing file attributes::           chgrp chmod chown touch
 * Disk usage::                         df du stat sync truncate
 * Printing text::                      echo printf yes
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Free Documentation License''.
 * File name manipulation::             dirname basename pathchk
 * Working context::                    pwd stty printenv tty
 * User information::                   id logname whoami groups users who
-* System context::                     date uname hostname hostid uptime
+* System context::                     date arch uname hostname hostid uptime
 * SELinux context::                    chcon runcon
 * Modified command invocation::        chroot env nice nohup stdbuf su timeout
 * Process control::                    kill





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