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authorErik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000
committerErik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000
commit73c8c9cf9a61286a109a8785b8e4782828d6fe99 (patch)
tree9a06b75f8564759dcf64cbc492026012c8986342
parent23dea9b712daf0f29bdbb0e6adce1d697f53cefc (diff)
downloadbusybox-73c8c9cf9a61286a109a8785b8e4782828d6fe99.tar.gz
More doc updates
-Erik
-rw-r--r--Changelog16
-rw-r--r--busybox.def.h2
-rw-r--r--coreutils/id.c1
-rw-r--r--docs/busybox.pod61
-rw-r--r--id.c1
5 files changed, 62 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 54ec8d62e..db2dc4494 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
0.44
- * added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
- updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
+ * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
+ help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
* Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
* Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
* Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
- * Fix for ping warnings from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
+ * Added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
+ updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
+ * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
* Fixed update segfault
* Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
* Fixed tar option parsing. In an attempt to accomodate the whiners
@@ -13,8 +15,7 @@
I broke creation of tarballs. I reverted the change (so tar needs
the "-" for all options).
* Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
- * cp/mv now accepts (and ignores) the -f flag, since it always
- does force anyway
+ * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
* tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
compatibility with the standard tail command
* added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
@@ -25,12 +26,11 @@
* Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
* Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
- * More doc updates
* cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
* zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
* Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc".
- * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
- help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
+ * Makefile intelligence updates
+ * More doc updates
-Erik
diff --git a/busybox.def.h b/busybox.def.h
index 744db85e8..5652b4518 100644
--- a/busybox.def.h
+++ b/busybox.def.h
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
//
// This compiles out everything but the most
// trivial --help usage information (i.e. reduces binary size)
-#define BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
+//#define BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
//
// Use termios to manipulate the screen ('more' is prettier with this on)
//#define BB_FEATURE_USE_TERMIOS
diff --git a/coreutils/id.c b/coreutils/id.c
index 542f86566..16cf083e1 100644
--- a/coreutils/id.c
+++ b/coreutils/id.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static const char id_usage[] =
"id [OPTIONS]... [USERNAME]\n"
#ifndef BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
"\nPrint information for USERNAME or the current user\n\n"
+ "Options:\n"
"\t-g\tprints only the group ID\n"
"\t-u\tprints only the user ID\n"
"\t-r\tprints the real user ID instead of the effective ID (with -ug)\n\n"
diff --git a/docs/busybox.pod b/docs/busybox.pod
index 408bbfa72..d6b475c99 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.pod
+++ b/docs/busybox.pod
@@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ terse runtime description of their behavior.
Currently defined functions include:
-basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, clear, chvt, cp, date, dd, df,
+basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, clear, chvt, cp, cut, date, dd, df,
dirname, dmesg, du, dutmp, echo, false, fbset, fdflush, find, free,
freeramdisk, deallocvt, fsck.minix, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, head, hostid,
-hostname, init, kill, killall, length, ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap, logger,
-logname, ls, lsmod, makedevs, math, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap,
-mktemp, mnc, more, mount, mt, mv, nslookup, ping, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd,
-reboot, rm, rmdir, rmmod, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sfdisk, sleep, sort, sync,
+hostname, id, init, kill, killall, length, ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap,
+logger, logname, ls, lsmod, makedevs, math, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod,
+mkswap, mktemp, nc, more, mount, mt, mv, nslookup, ping, poweroff, printf, ps,
+pwd, reboot, rm, rmdir, rmmod, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sfdisk, sleep, sort, sync,
syslogd, swapon, swapoff, tail, tar, test, tee, touch, tr, true, tty, umount,
uname, uniq, update, uptime, usleep, wc, whoami, yes, zcat, [
@@ -251,6 +251,30 @@ Options:
-------------------------------
+=item cut
+
+Usage: cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...
+
+Prints selected fields from each input FILE to standard output.
+
+Options:
+
+ -b LIST Output only bytes from LIST
+ -c LIST Output only characters from LIST
+ -d DELIM Use DELIM instead of tab as the field delimiter
+ -f N Print only these fields
+ -n Ignored
+
+Example:
+
+ $ echo "Hello world" | cut -f 1 -d ' '
+ Hello
+ $ echo "Hello world" | cut -f 2 -d ' '
+ world
+
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item date
Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
@@ -665,6 +689,23 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
+=item id
+
+Print information for USERNAME or the current user
+
+Options:
+
+ -g prints only the group ID
+ -u prints only the user ID
+ -r prints the real user ID instead of the effective ID (with -ug)
+
+Example:
+
+ $ id
+ uid=1000(andersen) gid=1000(andersen)
+
+-------------------------------
+
=item init
Usage: init
@@ -1076,15 +1117,15 @@ Example:
-------------------------------
-=item mnc
+=item nc
-Usage: mnc [IP] [port]
+Usage: nc [IP] [port]
-mini-netcat opens a pipe to IP:port
+Netcat opens a pipe to IP:port
Example:
- $ mnc foobar.somedomain.com 25
+ $ nc foobar.somedomain.com 25
220 foobar ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:03:02 -0600
help
214-Commands supported:
@@ -1881,4 +1922,4 @@ Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
=cut
-# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.30 2000/05/12 19:41:47 erik Exp $
+# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.31 2000/05/13 05:36:13 erik Exp $
diff --git a/id.c b/id.c
index 542f86566..16cf083e1 100644
--- a/id.c
+++ b/id.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ static const char id_usage[] =
"id [OPTIONS]... [USERNAME]\n"
#ifndef BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
"\nPrint information for USERNAME or the current user\n\n"
+ "Options:\n"
"\t-g\tprints only the group ID\n"
"\t-u\tprints only the user ID\n"
"\t-r\tprints the real user ID instead of the effective ID (with -ug)\n\n"