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diff --git a/doc/zutils.texi b/doc/zutils.texi index bb1c3b1..c494185 100644 --- a/doc/zutils.texi +++ b/doc/zutils.texi @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 27 June 2020 -@set VERSION 1.9 +@set UPDATED 5 January 2021 +@set VERSION 1.10 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ @contents @end ifnothtml +@ifnottex @node Top @top @@ -49,10 +50,11 @@ This manual is for Zutils (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}). @end menu @sp 1 -Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2020 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. +@end ifnottex @node Introduction @@ -194,21 +196,20 @@ It must return 0 if no errors occurred, and a non-zero value otherwise. @node The zutilsrc file -@chapter The zutilsrc file -@cindex the zutilsrc file +@chapter The zutils configuration file 'zutilsrc' +@cindex zutilsrc @file{zutilsrc} is the runtime configuration file for zutils. In it you may define the compressor name and options to be used for each format. -The @file{zutilsrc} file is optional; you don't need to install it in -order to run zutils. +@file{zutilsrc} is optional; you don't need to install it in order to run +zutils. The compressors specified in the command line override those specified -in the @file{zutilsrc} file. +in @file{zutilsrc}. -You may copy the system @file{zutilsrc} file -@file{$@{sysconfdir@}/zutilsrc} to @file{$HOME/.zutilsrc} and customize -these options as you like. The file syntax is fairly obvious (and there -are further instructions in it): +You may copy the system @file{zutilsrc} file @file{$@{sysconfdir@}/zutilsrc} +to @file{$HOME/.zutilsrc} and customize these options as you like. The file +syntax is fairly obvious (and there are further instructions in it): @enumerate @item @@ -623,7 +624,10 @@ Only print names of files containing at least one match. @item -L @itemx --files-without-match -Only print names of files not containing any matches. +Only print names of files not containing any matches.@* +Note: option -L fails (prints wrong results, returns wrong status, and even +hangs) when using GNU grep versions 3.2 to 3.4 inclusive because of a wrong +change in the exit status of grep, which was reverted in GNU grep 3.5. @item -m @var{n} @itemx --max-count=@var{n} @@ -783,9 +787,10 @@ Combining the options @samp{--force} and @samp{--keep}, as in between each pair of files in a multiformat set of files. The names of the original files must have one of the following extensions:@* -@samp{.bz2}, @samp{.gz}, and @samp{.xz} are recompressed to @samp{.lz}.@* -@samp{.tbz}, @samp{.tbz2}, @samp{.tgz}, and @samp{.txz} are recompressed to -@samp{.tlz}.@* +@samp{.bz2}, @samp{.gz}, or @samp{.xz}, which are recompressed to +@samp{.lz};@* +@samp{.tbz}, @samp{.tbz2}, @samp{.tgz}, or @samp{.txz}, which are +recompressed to @samp{.tlz}.@* Keeping the combined extensions (@samp{.tgz} --> @samp{.tlz}) may be useful when recompressing Slackware packages, for example. |