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- This is a package of small shell programming utilities. They are mostly
- compliant with POSIX.2, where applicable.
-
- The programs that can be built with this package are:
-
- basename chroot date dirname echo env expr factor false groups
- hostname id logname nice nohup pathchk printenv printf pwd seq
- sleep stty su tee test true tty uname users who whoami yes
-
- Some programs (chroot, nice, nohup, uname, and stty) are built and
- installed only on systems that have the features to support them.
- su is always built, but it is installed only if the installer can
- create setuid-root programs.
-
- If you want to install the su program separately, you can run
- `./configure && make check && make install' as usual; that will
- install all programs except su if you installed as a non-privileged
- user. Then run `make install-root' as root to install only su.
-
- See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
-
- See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
-
- If you are using a version of the Linux libc that predates 4.4.1,
- you should get a newer version. The old libraries contain getopt
- functions that are incompatible with certain uses of the date program.
- For instance, when built with the obsolete getopt functions, `date +%j'
- will give a usage error instead of the expected result.
-
- nice, stty, and uname require facilities not available on all systems;
- `configure' detects this and does not try to compile them on systems
- where those facilities are missing.
- nohup requires nice.
- su will be installed only if you do `make install' as root.
-
- Many thanks to all of the people who have taken the time to submit
- problem reports and fixes. Contributed changes are attributed in the
- ChangeLog file.
-
- Note that the distributed man pages are no longer being updated.
- The authoritative documentation is in texinfo form in the doc directory.
-
- These programs all recognize the `--version' option. When reporting
- bugs, please include in the subject line both the package name/version
- and the name of the program for which you found a problem.
-
- For general documentation on the coding and usage standards
- this distribution follows, see the GNU standards document
- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/standards.*, especially the `Makefile
- Conventions', `Configuration', and `User Interfaces' sections.
-
- Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
- sh-utils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu.
-