On 18/07/2026 16:13, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi!
I've started working on improving the quality of the manual pages for
coreutils, as I promised some time ago I'd do. The work is --for the
moment-- in the 'coreutils' branch of the Linux man-pages repo. Once
I finish, they won't be auto-generated from --help anymore.
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=coreutils>
We'll talk about incorporation to the coreutils.git repo later.
For reference, it was previously discussed
at:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2025-09/msg00151.html
For clarifications on any details, please see the full documentation
for any command at the link at the bottom of the coreutils man page.
E.g. `man vdir` references https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/vdir
Also note that since v9.10 each coreutils man page has deep links
from each option in the man page to the corresponding description
in the full documentation. That is something that could be maintained
in any forked man pages.
cheers,
Padraig
