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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-05-22 14:25:19 +0200 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-05-22 18:47:17 +0200 |
commit | a6a447fc58a01598682f0914f978d0a3c1cfc4dc (patch) | |
tree | 381e6cc2fecc1d4244daf27a8d2a67eccaf7c0df /ChangeLog | |
parent | ae5717158f1b9f31b986b0f4416582684039ec55 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-a6a447fc58a01598682f0914f978d0a3c1cfc4dc.tar.xz |
cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid, and
give a better diagnostic for a field-number/offset of 0.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* src/cut.c (ADD_RANGE_PAIR): Add an explicit check for 0.
Based on a patch from James Youngman.
* tests/misc/cut: Add tests for the above.
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@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ 2007-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid, and + give a better diagnostic for a field-number/offset of 0. + * NEWS: Mention the fix. + * src/cut.c (ADD_RANGE_PAIR): Add an explicit check. + Based on a patch from James Youngman. + * tests/misc/cut: Add tests for the above. + "cut -f 2-0" now fails; before, it was equivalent to "cut -f 2-" Also, diagnose the '-' in "cut -f -" as an invalid range, rather than interpreting it as the unlimited range, "1-". @@ -8,6 +15,7 @@ of 0 as an unspecified range endpoint. Give better diagnostics. Adjust a comment so that it is true also for 64-bit size_t. + * tests/cut/Test.pm: Add tests for the above. stty: fix a harmless syntax nit |