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2 months agotests: ptx: add a robustness test case
oech3 [Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:51:24 +0000 (13:51 +0000)] 
tests: ptx: add a robustness test case

* tests/ptx/ptx-overrun.sh: Ensure input is processed without issue.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/184

2 months agodoc: pr: use -COLS consistently
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:19:40 +0000 (22:19 +0000)] 
doc: pr: use -COLS consistently

Help this back from release as would break a couple of translations.

* src/pr.c: Use COLS rather than COLUMN consistently
in comments and usage().

2 months agodoc: kill: adjust documentation to produce html anchors for --help
Collin Funk [Fri, 6 Feb 2026 05:18:25 +0000 (21:18 -0800)] 
doc: kill: adjust documentation to produce html anchors for --help

* doc/coreutils.texi (kill invocation): Adjust documentation to use the
@optItem macros.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/80339
Fixes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/185

2 months agomaint: remove local maintainer-makefile adjustment
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:58:35 +0000 (12:58 +0000)] 
maint: remove local maintainer-makefile adjustment

* gl/top/maint.mk.diff: Remove as the fix is now in gnulib.
* gl/local.mk: Remove the diff reference.

2 months agomaint: update gnulib to latest
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:56:30 +0000 (12:56 +0000)] 
maint: update gnulib to latest

2 months agobuild: propagate $SHELL to makeinfo-wrapper.sh
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Feb 2026 21:12:28 +0000 (21:12 +0000)] 
build: propagate $SHELL to makeinfo-wrapper.sh

A user that had an environment with SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
reported the following when trying to build info docs:

  build-aux/missing (line 4): Unsupported use of '='. In fish

* doc/local.mk: Propagate make's SHELL to our
makeinfo wrapper, so that the substituted ${SHELL}
uses a compatible shell from the Makefile.

2 months agotests: df: check that --sync always calls sync before statfs
Collin Funk [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 05:32:03 +0000 (21:32 -0800)] 
tests: df: check that --sync always calls sync before statfs

* tests/df/sync.sh: New file.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add the test.

2 months agostat,df: remove an unnecessary alloca
Collin Funk [Sun, 1 Feb 2026 20:34:36 +0000 (12:34 -0800)] 
stat,df: remove an unnecessary alloca

* src/find-mount-point.c (find_mount_point): Don't call ASSIGN_STRDUPA
on the result of dir_name.

2 months agomaint: post-release administrivia
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:20:32 +0000 (12:20 +0000)] 
maint: post-release administrivia

* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

2 months agoversion 9.10 v9.10
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Feb 2026 11:45:38 +0000 (11:45 +0000)] 
version 9.10

* NEWS: Record release date.

2 months agomaintainer-makefile: propagate MAKEINFO to gendocs
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 20:15:17 +0000 (20:15 +0000)] 
maintainer-makefile: propagate MAKEINFO to gendocs

Make this change temporarily in coreutils.
Move to gnulib after v9.10 is released.

* top/maint.mk (web-manual): Propagate MAKEINFO explicitly,
rather than requiring it exported in the environment,
which can be awkward on Solaris make for example.

2 months agotests: avoid false failure sync'ing busy systems
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 11:54:02 +0000 (11:54 +0000)] 
tests: avoid false failure sync'ing busy systems

* tests/misc/sync.sh: Increase the timeout to 60s,
and restrict the case to when RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes.

2 months agodoc: improve highlighting of dd --help translations
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:34:28 +0000 (17:34 +0000)] 
doc: improve highlighting of dd --help translations

* src/system.h (oputs_): Ensure we're not matching '-' in
translated descriptions.  Also support highlighting only
dd "foo=bar" when the description is separated with a single space.

2 months agomaint: avoid prohibit-const-char syntax check failure
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:12:12 +0000 (14:12 +0000)] 
maint: avoid prohibit-const-char syntax check failure

* src/copy.c: Avoid prohibit-const-char failure,
newly triggered by the (correct) recent adjustment.

2 months agodoc: move xgettext: hint to the correct translated string
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:28:41 +0000 (13:28 +0000)] 
doc: move xgettext: hint to the correct translated string

* src/fmt.c (usage): Move comment down to the newly separated string.
Discussed in https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/178

2 months agomaint: space between ‘char’ and ‘*’
Paul Eggert [Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:20:57 +0000 (11:20 -0800)] 
maint: space between ‘char’ and ‘*’

2 months agotests: date: test that %% in the string is not replaced
Collin Funk [Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:56:47 +0000 (22:56 -0800)] 
tests: date: test that %% in the string is not replaced

* tests/date/percent-percent.sh: New file.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.

2 months agodoc: improve highlighting of single spaced translations
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:45:02 +0000 (17:45 +0000)] 
doc: improve highlighting of single spaced translations

* src/system.h (oputs_): Translations sometimes use a single space
between an option and its description.  They only do this though
for long options since they result in less available screen space.
Therefore be more strict with option matching once we've encountered
a long option, which supports the more varied formats often
associated with short options.

2 months agomaint: avoid syntax-check failure
Collin Funk [Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:47:17 +0000 (18:47 -0800)] 
maint: avoid syntax-check failure

* man/date.x: Add a copyright header to fix sc_copyright_check.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agotests: tac: test --regex with anchors in the separator
Collin Funk [Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:12:18 +0000 (17:12 -0800)] 
tests: tac: test --regex with anchors in the separator

* tests/tac/tac.pl (@Tests): Add a few test cases.

2 months agodoc: fit in 80 columns
Paul Eggert [Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:59:55 +0000 (14:59 -0800)] 
doc: fit in 80 columns

2 months agodoc: fix date(1) synopses etc
Paul Eggert [Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:50:33 +0000 (18:50 -0800)] 
doc: fix date(1) synopses etc

Font problem reported by Michael Aramini via Alejandro Colomar
<https://bugs.gnu.org/80258>.  This patch also fixes some
longstanding confusion with date synopses.
* src/date.c (usage): Do not imply that only -u can be used with
MMDDhhmm..., and do not put misleading brackets around the latter.

2 months agotests: mktemp: export LC_ALL
Collin Funk [Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:27:00 +0000 (11:27 -0800)] 
tests: mktemp: export LC_ALL

* tests/mktemp/bad-unicode.sh: Run this test case using multiple
locales.

2 months agodoc: support TAB as a delimiter between --option and description
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:52:59 +0000 (19:52 +0000)] 
doc: support TAB as a delimiter between --option and description

* src/system.h (oputs_): Treat a single TAB as an option delimiter.
Some zh translations use this delimiter format.

2 months agotests: chgrp: allow a numeric user id to be printed
Collin Funk [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:12:10 +0000 (14:12 -0800)] 
tests: chgrp: allow a numeric user id to be printed

* tests/chgrp/from.sh: If 'id' cannot find a user name for user id 1,
expect the user id to be printed in the message of 'chgrp'.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agotail: fix EINTR handling on older systems
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:04:46 +0000 (18:04 +0000)] 
tail: fix EINTR handling on older systems

tail(1) could fail with an "Interrupted system call"
diagnostic, on some systems like Centos 5 (Linux 2.6.18).
This was seen with tests/tail/overlay-headers.sh
which sends SIGCONT, which should not induce a failure.

* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Retry the poll()
upon receiving a non terminating signal, and the syscall
is not automatically restarted by the system.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agotests: avoid failures if 'ulimit -n' cannot set file descriptor limits
Collin Funk [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:15:10 +0000 (11:15 -0800)] 
tests: avoid failures if 'ulimit -n' cannot set file descriptor limits

This fixes test failures seen on Haiku.

* tests/ls/recursive.sh: Run 'ls' even if ulimit fails.
* tests/split/r-chunk.sh: Run 'split' even if ulimit fails.
* tests/sort/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh: Skip test if 'ulimit -n' cannot set
file descriptor limits.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agotests: dd: avoid EPERM false failure on Solaris
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:58:29 +0000 (13:58 +0000)] 
tests: dd: avoid EPERM false failure on Solaris

* tests/dd/fail-ftruncate-fstat.sh: Also map the "Not owner"
error for EPERM seen on earlier Solaris 11 releases.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agodoc: nproc: mention OpenMP env vars in --help
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:34:35 +0000 (13:34 +0000)] 
doc: nproc: mention OpenMP env vars in --help

* src/nproc.c (usage): Clarify the impact of 'OMP_NUM_THREADS'
and 'OMP_THREAD_LIMIT' in --help and the man page.
Also mention that nproc(1) will always return > 0.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/80243

2 months agobuild: update to latest gnulib
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:03:51 +0000 (13:03 +0000)] 
build: update to latest gnulib

* gnulib:
  - getdelim, getline: Don't replace these functions on glibc
  - selinux: fix link errors with termux

2 months agotests: recognize SELinux support on Android
Bruno Haible [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:42:33 +0000 (07:42 +0100)] 
tests: recognize SELinux support on Android

* init.cfg (require_selinux_): Also try to see if 'mount' lists the
selinuxfs.

2 months agotests: stty: avoid false failure if resizing terminal
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:24:53 +0000 (18:24 +0000)] 
tests: stty: avoid false failure if resizing terminal

* tests/stty/stty-row-col.sh: Skip the test if we detect terminal
resizing.  Also more robustly restore the original size.

2 months agotests: readlink: avoid a false failure on Haiku
Collin Funk [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:18:24 +0000 (01:18 -0800)] 
tests: readlink: avoid a false failure on Haiku

* tests/readlink/readlink-posix.sh: Allow the "A" in "Argument" to be
capitalized in return value of strerror (EINVAL).

2 months agodoc: NEWS: add a missing quotation mark
Collin Funk [Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:15:57 +0000 (20:15 -0800)] 
doc: NEWS: add a missing quotation mark

* NEWS: Add a closing quotation mark.

2 months agotests: usage_vs_refs.sh: fix false failure with Alpine
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:19:59 +0000 (19:19 +0000)] 
tests: usage_vs_refs.sh: fix false failure with Alpine

* tests/misc/usage_vs_refs.sh: Fix missing escape on literal {,
required by busybox grep.
Reported by Bruno Haible.

2 months agodoc: dir,vdir: add dircolors(1) reference to man pages
Egmont Koblinger [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:25:59 +0000 (16:25 +0000)] 
doc: dir,vdir: add dircolors(1) reference to man pages

* man/dir.x: Add dircolors(1) to "SEE ALSO" section.
* man/vdir.x: Likewise.

2 months agodoc: dir,vdir: fix anchor refs from --help
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:23:41 +0000 (16:23 +0000)] 
doc: dir,vdir: fix anchor refs from --help

* src/system.h (oputs_): Map from dir,vdir to ls.

2 months agodoc: stat: fix highlighting of --format
Egmont Koblinger [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:15:26 +0000 (16:15 +0000)] 
doc: stat: fix highlighting of --format

* src/stat.c (usage): Add missing comma after -c.

2 months agodoc: NEWS: minor adjustments
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:13:26 +0000 (16:13 +0000)] 
doc: NEWS: minor adjustments

* NEWS: Fix typos, and move item to more appropriate section.

2 months agodoc: pr: fix --help output output
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:55:01 +0000 (12:55 +0000)] 
doc: pr: fix --help output output

* src/pr.c (usage): Use consistent alignment with -J,
and highlight --pages using oputs().

2 months agodoc: help2man: handle leading '+' in options
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:45:13 +0000 (12:45 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: handle leading '+' in options

* man/help2man: Fix indentation of options with leading '+'.

2 months agotests: fix false failure with pr -COLS
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:55:51 +0000 (11:55 +0000)] 
tests: fix false failure with pr -COLS

* tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh: Fix false failure induced
by commit v9.9-239-ga06f0cf67

2 months agodoc: use TERM=dumb rather than HELP_NO_MARKUP to disable markup
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:42:47 +0000 (11:42 +0000)] 
doc: use TERM=dumb rather than HELP_NO_MARKUP to disable markup

This is a more standard mechanism to disable markup.

* src/system.h (oputs_): Logic change to honor TERM=dumb,
rather than HELP_NO_MARKUP=something.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Adjust the description for --help.
* man/local.mk: Ensure TERM is set to something,
so that man pages have links included.
* man/viewman: Just honor users $TERM.
* tests/misc/getopt_vs_usage.sh: Remove env var complication,
as TERM is unset automatically.
* tests/misc/usage_vs_refs.sh: Likewise.
* NEWS: Adjust the change in behavior note.

2 months agotests: avoid false failure with non standard path
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:30:21 +0000 (19:30 +0000)] 
tests: avoid false failure with non standard path

* tests/misc/usage_vs_refs.sh: Properly quote arguments
to avoid false failure with paths containing spaces etc.

2 months agotests: avoid infinite loop in dd failure edge case
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:57:53 +0000 (18:57 +0000)] 
tests: avoid infinite loop in dd failure edge case

* tests/tee/tee.sh: If dd failed, then tee would spin
writing to the fifo forever, so add a timeout protection.
This was noticed with `export LD_PRELOAD=libasan.so.8`
with a non ASAN build, which induced a failure in dd invocations.

2 months agotests: avoid false failure with sanitizer builds
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:31:24 +0000 (17:31 +0000)] 
tests: avoid false failure with sanitizer builds

* init.cfg (sanitizer_build_): Add a helper to detect if a program
is built against a sanitizer.
* tests/df/no-mtab-status-masked-proc.sh: Skip if a sanitizer build.

2 months agostat,tail: sync with latest Linux file systems
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:29:03 +0000 (16:29 +0000)] 
stat,tail: sync with latest Linux file systems

* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add "guest-memfd".
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2 months agotests: avoid false failure on setgid dir
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:06:51 +0000 (16:06 +0000)] 
tests: avoid false failure on setgid dir

* tests/misc/mknod.sh: Skip a portion of the test
in the edge case of setgid directories.

2 months agols: --hyperlink: switch to more standard delimiters
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:25:26 +0000 (20:25 +0000)] 
ls: --hyperlink: switch to more standard delimiters

* src/ls.c (quote_name): Use ST (ESC \) rather than BEL,
as that's the only terminator mentioned in at least
ECMA-48, DEC STD 070, and EK-VT520-RM.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* tests/ls/hyperlink.sh: Adjust accordingly.

Suggested by Egmont Koblinger.

2 months agotests: ensure there is an anchor for each --help option
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:27:49 +0000 (19:27 +0000)] 
tests: ensure there is an anchor for each --help option

* tests/misc/usage_vs_refs.sh: A new test to correlation options
listed in --help, and anchors referenced in the texinfo (html) manual.
* tests/local.mk: Add the new test.

2 months agodoc: NEWS: describe the --help markup configuration options
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:03:08 +0000 (14:03 +0000)] 
doc: NEWS: describe the --help markup configuration options

* NEWS: Mention build and runtime config options.

2 months agodoc: adjust --help hyperlinks to more standard format
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:33:34 +0000 (20:33 +0000)] 
doc: adjust --help hyperlinks to more standard format

* src/system.h (oputs_): Use ST rather than BEL.

2 months agodoc: add commentary on details of --help references
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:03:03 +0000 (20:03 +0000)] 
doc: add commentary on details of --help references

* src/system.h: Mention why we don't bother with (the overhead of)
hostnames in these URLs, and why --help,--version link are special.

2 months agodoc: cp: group related -HLP descriptions
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:23:42 +0000 (19:23 +0000)] 
doc: cp: group related -HLP descriptions

* src/cp (usage): The -HLP options are close
in functionality and close alphabetically, so describe together.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Likewise.

2 months agodoc: cp: document --keep-directory-symlink in correct location
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:11:40 +0000 (19:11 +0000)] 
doc: cp: document --keep-directory-symlink in correct location

* src/cp.c (usage): Move to alphabetically in list.
* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Move description from here ...
(cp invocation): ... to here.

2 months agodoc: ls: document --block-size in the manual
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:58:40 +0000 (18:58 +0000)] 
doc: ls: document --block-size in the manual

* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document --block-size

2 months agodoc: who: document --users in manual
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:43:32 +0000 (17:43 +0000)] 
doc: who: document --users in manual

* doc/coreutils.texi (who invocation): Mention that --users
is equivalent to -u.
* src/who.c (usage): Mention -u shows idle time.

2 months agodoc: id: document -a in manual
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:40:34 +0000 (17:40 +0000)] 
doc: id: document -a in manual

* doc/coreutils.texi (id invocation): Mention this option is ignored.

2 months agodoc: more indexing fixes in manual
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:37:42 +0000 (17:37 +0000)] 
doc: more indexing fixes in manual

* doc/coreutils.texi: Add missing anchors.
* src/pr.c (Usage): Adjust to use -COLS, to avoid a clash
with the additional anchor added to the manual.
Also markup the --columns option as done for other options.
* tests/split/line-bytes.sh: Also fix --lines-bytes typo here.

2 months agodoc: tty: fix indexing in texinfo
Egmont Koblinger [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:13:07 +0000 (22:13 +0000)] 
doc: tty: fix indexing in texinfo

* doc/coreutils.texi: Fix recently introduced typo.
* THANKS.in: Remove as now committed to the repo.

2 months agodoc: make legacy digest utility --help reference cksum nodes
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:35:54 +0000 (13:35 +0000)] 
doc: make legacy digest utility --help reference cksum nodes

* src/system.h (oputs_): Map md5sum etc. to cksum urls,
as we only have cksum anchors in the manual to avoid
creating anchors for all of the legacy digest utilities.

2 months agodoc: tweak tests to avoid false failure with --help
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:17:49 +0000 (18:17 +0000)] 
doc: tweak tests to avoid false failure with --help

* tests/df/df-output.sh: Use a more relaxed match.
* tests/du/inodes.sh: Likewise.

2 months agodoc: all: use option highlighting and more standard alignment
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 1 Jan 2026 16:31:44 +0000 (16:31 +0000)] 
doc: all: use option highlighting and more standard alignment

Adjust all utils to:
  - Have a separate translation per option
  - Use either oputs() or oprintf(), instead of fputs() or printf().
  - Use more standard alignment as discussed in previous commits.
  - Various tweaks to descriptions.

2 months agodoc: readlink: improve option ordering in texinfo
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:29:07 +0000 (15:29 +0000)] 
doc: readlink: improve option ordering in texinfo

* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Order -q,-s alphabetically.

2 months agodoc: chcon: use more standard -HLP desciptions
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:40:27 +0000 (14:40 +0000)] 
doc: chcon: use more standard -HLP desciptions

* src/chcon.c (usage): Use emit_symlink_recurse_options ("-P").

2 months agodoc: highlight -HLP options
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:35:44 +0000 (14:35 +0000)] 
doc: highlight -HLP options

* src/system.h (emit_symlink_recurse_options): Highlight -HLP,
for chmod, chcon etc.

2 months agodoc: put --help and --version descriptions on separate line
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:24:13 +0000 (17:24 +0000)] 
doc: put --help and --version descriptions on separate line

* src/system.h: This aligns the output with the option
description format used in most commands

2 months agodoc: ls: put option description on separate line to option
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 3 Jan 2026 17:55:50 +0000 (17:55 +0000)] 
doc: ls: put option description on separate line to option

* src/ls.c (usage): This is less constrained when writing comments,
and more consistent in output alignment.  There is less delineation
between options and descripts, but given options are highlighted
by default now, this is a more appropriate format to use.
Note consistently showing description on the line following the option,
avoids any issue with the user needing to visually line up
the option with a description far to the right.
Note this format more closely aligns with that used in man pages.

2 months agodoc: viewman: a new helper to quickly view formatted man pages
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:37:45 +0000 (14:37 +0000)] 
doc: viewman: a new helper to quickly view formatted man pages

Use like: man/viewman ls

* man/viewman: Generate man page on the fly, and view.

2 months agodoc: help2man: account for undisplayed markup in indenting calculations
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:09:16 +0000 (18:09 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: account for undisplayed markup in indenting calculations

* man/help2man: This is significant with the indented line
following the dd bs=BYTES "option" at least.

2 months agodoc: help2man: convert all hyperlinks, not just ones in --options
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:00:28 +0000 (22:00 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: convert all hyperlinks, not just ones in --options

* man/help2man: Make the (--?) part of the match optional.
Note we still extract the dashes, to support the existing
option matching logic in help2man.

2 months agodoc: help2man: support alternate format OSC hyperlinks
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:36:09 +0000 (21:36 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: support alternate format OSC hyperlinks

* man/help2man: The BEL terminator format was already supported.
Add support for ESC + backslash terminator.  Also split out
and document the regular expression.

2 months agodoc: help2man: convert OSC hyperlinks
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:58:30 +0000 (20:58 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: convert OSC hyperlinks

* man/help2man: Convert OSC hyperlinks to roff \X escapes,
which will be converted back to OSC hyperlinks when
the man page is displayed on the terminal.
Note formatting is removed from hyperlinked text by default,
thus relying on how the terminal highlights hyperlinks,
but --bold-refs is honored in this case, in which hyperlinked
text will be marked up as bold, which matches the default
markup used for non hyperlinked options.

2 months agodoc: help2man: recognise option description with smaller indent
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 3 Jan 2026 15:23:18 +0000 (15:23 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: recognise option description with smaller indent

* man/help2man: Allow for a smaller indented option description.
This smaller indentation is present in timeout --help output,
so now the line spacing in timeout.1 is more consistent.
Also having the description on a separate line with
a smaller indentation, is a more general way to present
option descriptions (and what the man page formatting uses already).
We'll be changing many utilities, especially with longer multi-line
descriptions to this new format.

2 months agodoc: help2man: strip ANSI codes
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:46:15 +0000 (16:46 +0000)] 
doc: help2man: strip ANSI codes

* man/help2man: With these ANSI codes, output is corrupted,
so it's best to strip these, which allows --help to
outputting formatting and hyperlinks by default.

2 months agodoc: support highlighting printf formatted options
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:36:36 +0000 (12:36 +0000)] 
doc: support highlighting printf formatted options

* src/system.h (oprintf): Add a printf wrapper that
calls oputs_() to markup the formatted text.

2 months agodoc: support more general option matching
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:36:35 +0000 (13:36 +0000)] 
doc: support more general option matching

* src/system.h: Support "-p DIR, --tmpdir[=DIR]" option.
Previously only the "-p" was highlighted.
Support highlighting dd option syntax (no '-').
Support test(1) "FILE1 -nt FILE2" syntax.

2 months agodoc: parse any whitespace as an option/description delimiter
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 4 Jan 2026 15:11:57 +0000 (15:11 +0000)] 
doc: parse any whitespace as an option/description delimiter

* src/system.c (oputs_): Use isspace() rather than hardcoding.
Note we don't use c_isspace() as we need to support anything
coming from translations.

2 months agodoc: optimize logic to disable SGR output in --help
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 3 Jan 2026 17:15:12 +0000 (17:15 +0000)] 
doc: optimize logic to disable SGR output in --help

* src/system.h (oputs_): Simplify processing if neither
MANUAL_URL or BOLD_MAN_REFS is defined.  Also ensure
we only lookup the HELP_NO_MARKUP env var once per process.

2 months agodoc: move oputs() to system.h to support all commands
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 1 Jan 2026 16:45:45 +0000 (16:45 +0000)] 
doc: move oputs() to system.h to support all commands

* src/ls.c: Move non ls specific helper to ...
* src/system.h: ... here.

2 months agodoc: support a configurable manual url
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 1 Jan 2026 16:17:16 +0000 (16:17 +0000)] 
doc: support a configurable manual url

* configure.ac: Support ./configure --enable-manual-url=...
* src/ls.c (oputs): Adjust accordingly.

2 months agodoc: --help: --disable-bold-man-page-references configures bold refs
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:34:47 +0000 (16:34 +0000)] 
doc: --help: --disable-bold-man-page-references configures bold refs

* configure.ac: Adjust help text for --disable-bold-man-page-references,
and also define BOLD_MAN_REFS.
* src/ls.c (oputs): Output bold iff BOLD_MAN_REFS is defined.

2 months agodoc: ls: support styling and links in --help output
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:40:32 +0000 (13:40 +0000)] 
doc: ls: support styling and links in --help output

* src/ls.c (oputs): A new function that wraps puts(),
but also highlights the --option-text portion, and
adds links to the appropriate part of the online manual.
(usage): Call oputs() rather than puts().
* doc/coreutils.texi (--help): Document new HELP_NO_MARKUP env var,
which can be used in the edge case one wants to suppress ansi escapes.
* tests/misc/getopt_vs_usage.sh: Use HELP_NO_MARKUP to ensure the
test continues to pass.

2 months agotests: test: ensure whitespace ignored when parsing numbers
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:45:53 +0000 (13:45 +0000)] 
tests: test: ensure whitespace ignored when parsing numbers

* tests/test/test.pl: Add a test case.

2 months agocksum: use more accurate program name in single binary mode
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:07:01 +0000 (14:07 +0000)] 
cksum: use more accurate program name in single binary mode

Following commit v9.9-109-gcd5229222

* src/cksum.c (PROGRAM_NAME): In legacy mode, i.e., when built
as a single binary, set the PROGRAM_NAME dynamically based on
the selected digest type.  This is significant in --help
to ensure the correct texinfo node is referenced, and in
--version to ensure the correct utility name is output.

3 months agotests: dd: avoid a false test failure on Solaris 11.4
Collin Funk [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:26:45 +0000 (18:26 -0800)] 
tests: dd: avoid a false test failure on Solaris 11.4

* tests/dd/fail-ftruncate-fstat.sh: Replace the message used by Solaris
11.4 for strerror (EPERM) with the one we expect.

3 months agotests: sync: check that all files are processed even when errors occur
Collin Funk [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:18:18 +0000 (15:18 -0800)] 
tests: sync: check that all files are processed even when errors occur

* tests/misc/sync.sh: Add the test case.

3 months agotests: sync: also test that -d and -f don't block on a FIFO
Collin Funk [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:58:27 +0000 (13:58 -0800)] 
tests: sync: also test that -d and -f don't block on a FIFO

* tests/misc/sync.sh: Check 'sync fifo' with no arguments, -d, and -f
separately. Only perform the check for -f if RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
since it may be expensive.

3 months agobuild: update to latest gnulib
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:56:10 +0000 (17:56 +0000)] 
build: update to latest gnulib

* gnulib: Update to latest.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/176

3 months agotests: env.sh: avoid multi-call binary considerations
oech3 [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:38:15 +0000 (05:38 +0900)] 
tests: env.sh: avoid multi-call binary considerations

A simpler fix than commit v9.9-4-g3b6efd555
which is less dependent on the exact behavior
of a multi-call binary.

* tests/env/env.sh: Use a local script rather than 'true'.
which may be a symlinked multi-call binary.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/174

3 months agodoc: post process html with non-GNU make programs
Collin Funk [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:23:15 +0000 (21:23 -0800)] 
doc: post process html with non-GNU make programs

* .gitignore (/build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh):
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh.
* build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh.in: New file, renamed from
build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh and modified to use @MAKEINFO@ instead of
makeinfo.
* cfg.mk (MAKEINFO): Remove variable.
* configure.ac: Add build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh as a configure file.
* doc/local.mk (MAKEINFO): Define to
$(abs_top_builddir)/build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh.
(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Move over some values from the previous MAKEINFO
definition.

3 months agotests: strace: consider splice a "read" syscall
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:56:24 +0000 (16:56 +0000)] 
tests: strace: consider splice a "read" syscall

* tests/cksum/cksum-c.sh: Add 'splice' to the injection set.
* tests/misc/read-errors.sh: Likewise.
From https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/167

3 months agomaint: prefer NULL to nullptr
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:55:38 +0000 (15:55 +0000)] 
maint: prefer NULL to nullptr

NULL is best for C as discussed at:
https://bugs.gnu.org/66221#53

* bootstrap.conf: Remove dependency on nullptr.
* s/nullptr/NULL/.

3 months agodoc: add more redirections from legacy *sum to cksum
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:35:17 +0000 (13:35 +0000)] 
doc: add more redirections from legacy *sum to cksum

*  doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation, sha1sum invocation,
b2sum invocation, sha2 utilities): Mention these are legacy interfaces,
and reference 'cksum invocation'.
*  src/cksum.c (usage): Likewise.
*  man/md5sum.x: Redirect to cksum, rather than individual utils.
*  man/sha1sum.x: Likewise.

3 months agotests: use `command -v` to identify binary
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:48:36 +0000 (12:48 +0000)] 
tests: use `command -v` to identify binary

* tests/misc/coreutils.sh: Be more flexibile by using `command -v`
to identify the binary to be executed, rather than linking
directly to the built binary.

3 months agobuild: fix error building html documentation from tarball
Collin Funk [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:09:52 +0000 (20:09 -0800)] 
build: fix error building html documentation from tarball

Reported by Egmont Koblinger <egmont@gmail.com> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2026-01/msg00111.html>.

* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add build-aux/makeinfo-wrapper.sh.

3 months agotests: avoid a test hang on AIX
Collin Funk [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:26:26 +0000 (14:26 -0800)] 
tests: avoid a test hang on AIX

* init.cfg (uses_strace_): New function.
(require_strace_): Use it.
tests/cksum/cksum-c.sh: Likewise.
tests/misc/read-errors.sh: Likewise.

3 months agobuild: update gnulib submodule to latest
Collin Funk [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:12:27 +0000 (14:12 -0800)] 
build: update gnulib submodule to latest

3 months agomaint: remove sc_prohibit_NULL syntax check
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:45:42 +0000 (12:45 +0000)] 
maint: remove sc_prohibit_NULL syntax check

* cfg.mk: NULL is fine and good in C as per:
https://bugs.gnu.org/66221#53

3 months agobuild: update gnulib submodule to latest
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:45:08 +0000 (12:45 +0000)] 
build: update gnulib submodule to latest