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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-01 12:47:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-06-01 12:47:45 +0000 |
| commit | c35afe751ffc1cb67bd9e787d125d4106cef864e (patch) | |
| tree | 6f238c5528dddd8762d15269be765e503675488c | |
| parent | 980b8cf2f71e1765f35f4b5511e8c2bcac4256cd (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c35afe751ffc1cb67bd9e787d125d4106cef864e.tar.xz | |
echo compatibility cleanup.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1 + echo now conforms to POSIX better. It supports the \0ooo syntax for + octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately. If + POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now + outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options. + ** New features For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file @@ -86,6 +91,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs nanosecond-resolution time stamps. + echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH, + for compatibility with bash. + * Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable] |