coreutils/man, branch master

doc: help2man: preserve layout of tables

2026-05-09T16:47:47Z

This is useful in many man pages like date , dd, od, tr, ... where there are tables presented, where extraneous lines between each entry are best avoided. * man/help2man: Use .PD 0 (Paragraph Distance) to avoid extraneous blank lines within .TP delineated tables. Also use explicit widths with .TP in such tables, to preserve the alignment from the --help output.

doc: reference detailed "numeric mode" info from chmod.1

2026-05-02T12:35:57Z

Note were links are not supported (like on Solaris or FreeBSD), the text still displays normally. * man/chmod.x: Link from "numeric mode" in chmod man page, to more detailed online info.

doc: remove redundant "Report translation bugs to" in --help

2026-04-25T11:26:12Z

* configure.ac: Define PACKAGE_L10N_BUGREPORT. * man/local.mk (run_help2man): Set the IN_HELP2MAN environment variable. * src/system.h (emit_ancillary_info): Don't emit "Report any translation bugs to" line; this is already done by emit_bug_reporting_address() in version-etc.c. Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/80886

maint: avoid syntax-check failure

2026-01-27T02:47:17Z

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

doc: fit in 80 columns

2026-01-26T23:01:02Z

doc: fix date(1) synopses etc

2026-01-26T03:08:53Z

Font problem reported by Michael Aramini via Alejandro Colomar . 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.

doc: dir,vdir: add dircolors(1) reference to man pages

2026-01-22T16:27:13Z

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

doc: help2man: handle leading '+' in options

2026-01-22T12:45:13Z

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

doc: use TERM=dumb rather than HELP_NO_MARKUP to disable markup

2026-01-22T11:42:47Z

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.

doc: viewman: a new helper to quickly view formatted man pages

2026-01-21T13:51:39Z

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