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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-08-08 22:10:39 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-08-08 22:10:39 +0000 |
commit | 6767712f7e04717e711eb092bedb7a07ab988342 (patch) | |
tree | c27bc131f457fba31cf10b4b15663d73e7b17a3e | |
parent | d578d8a8be0489c7d6d593168cea7225c958f3e1 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-6767712f7e04717e711eb092bedb7a07ab988342.tar.xz |
Add shuf. Mention new --random-source option for shred and sort.
Move "sort +1 -2" notice to the appropriate section, and clarify its
role with respect to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -114,10 +114,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than silently ignoring one of them. - sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" when conforming - to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to POSIX. - However, "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1". - stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0: FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release containing this change was 5.92. @@ -158,6 +154,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sha256sum: print or check a SHA256 (256-bit) checksum sha384sum: print or check a SHA384 (384-bit) checksum sha512sum: print or check a SHA512 (512-bit) checksum + shuf: Shuffle lines of text. ** New features @@ -186,8 +183,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection against mistakes. + shred and sort now accept the --random-source option. + sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option. + sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" unless + POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. However, when conforming to POSIX + 1003.1-2001 "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1". + wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of NUL-terminated file names. |