@cindex utilities for shell programming
This manual minimally documents version @value{VERSION} of the GNU shell
-utilities. See the introduction for caveats.
+utilities.
@menu
* Introduction:: Caveats, overview, and authors.
@cindex POSIX.2
The GNU shell utilities are mostly compatible with the POSIX.2 standard.
+@cindex bugs, reporting
Please report bugs to @samp{bug-gnu-utils@@prep.ai.mit.edu}. Remember
to include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and
any other information needed to reproduce the bug. @xref{Bugs, , , gcc,
GNU CC}.
+@cindex history
This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which
were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering.
-@c This is odd -- looks like a bug in makeinfo.
@c If the following space before `@value' is removed, makeinfo
@c fails to substitute the value for Francois. Instead, it reports
-@c `F{No Value For "rancois"}...'.
+@c `F{No Value For "rancois"}...'. This is a bug in makeinfo.
@c So please don't remove that leading space for now.
@value{Francois} Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.
Karl Berry did the indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.
Certain options are available in all these programs. Rather than
writing identical descriptions for each of the programs, they are
-described here. In fact, every GNU program accepts (or should accept)
-these options.
+described here. (In fact, every GNU program accepts (or should accept)
+these options.)
-Many shell utilities take arbitrary strings as arguments. In those
+Many of these programs take arbitrary strings as arguments. In those
cases, @samp{--help} and @samp{--version} are taken as these options
only if there is one and exactly one command line argument.