Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it time to remove the mention of v and d from the coreutils info
> pages, leaving it up to distros whether they bundle a dir as d and
> vdir as v?
I think so. Here's a patch to do that. I think Jim's about to
cut a new release so I'll hold off on installing it.
2005-10-15 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/coreutils.texi (Top, General output formatting, dir invocation):
(vdir invocation): Don't document the old v and d commands.
--- doc/coreutils.texi 15 Oct 2005 14:59:17 -0000 1.288
+++ doc/coreutils.texi 16 Oct 2005 05:53:38 -0000
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ @node Top
* Operating on sorted files:: sort uniq comm ptx tsort
* Operating on fields within a line:: cut paste join
* Operating on characters:: tr expand unexpand
-* Directory listing:: ls dir vdir d v dircolors
+* Directory listing:: ls dir vdir dircolors
* Basic operations:: cp dd install mv rm shred
* Special file types:: ln mkdir rmdir mkfifo mknod
* Changing file attributes:: chgrp chmod chown touch
@@ -5813,7 +5813,7 @@ output is not a terminal.
@opindex vertical @r{sorted files in columns}
List files in columns, sorted vertically. This is the default for
@command{ls} if standard output is a terminal. It is always the default
-for the @command{dir} and @command{d} programs.
+for the @command{dir} program.
@sc{gnu} @command{ls} uses variable width columns to display as many files as
possible in the fewest lines.
@@ -6168,7 +6168,7 @@ @node dir invocation
@pindex dir
@cindex directory listing, brief
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (also installed as @command{d}) is equivalent to @code{ls -C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is equivalent to @code{ls -C
-b}; that is, by default files are listed in columns, sorted vertically,
and special characters are represented by backslash escape sequences.
@@ -6181,7 +6181,7 @@ @node vdir invocation
@pindex vdir
@cindex directory listing, verbose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (also installed as @command{v}) is equivalent to @code{ls -l
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is equivalent to @code{ls -l
-b}; that is, by default files are listed in long format and special
characters are represented by backslash escape sequences.
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