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coreutils-7.5 soon?
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Jim Meyering |
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coreutils-7.5 soon? |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:44:17 +0200 |
There have been enough interesting changes that
it seems worthwhile to make a release soon.
As I see it, the most notable are the new program, stdbuf,
and tail's addition of inotify support.
Here are the NEWS entries:
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** Bug fixes
truncate -s failed to skip all whitespace in the option argument in
some locales.
sort now correctly ignores fields whose ending position is specified
before the start position. Previously in numeric mode the remaining
part of the line after the start position was used as the sort key.
[This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".]
** New programs
stdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering
for its standard streams.
** Changes in behavior
ls --color: files with multiple hard links are no longer colored differently
by default. That can be enabled by changing the LS_COLORS environment
variable. You can control that using the MULTIHARDLINK dircolors input
variable which corresponds to the 'mh' LS_COLORS item. Note these variables
were renamed from 'HARDLINK' and 'hl' which were available since
coreutils-7.1 when this feature was introduced.
** New features
chroot now accepts the options --userspec and --groups.
sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
tail uses inotify when possible.
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If anyone has pending patches or unaddressed issues,
please report them to this list.
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