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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-03-18 16:21:26 +0100
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-03-18 16:21:26 +0100
commit553d347d3e08e00ee4f9df520b37c964c3f26e28 (patch)
tree189a05248c9fe5251a5bb5d32887125f19c70783 /NEWS
parentb1d89070f620c8787a36d93d67b0431ca15fb1dc (diff)
downloadcoreutils-553d347d3e08e00ee4f9df520b37c964c3f26e28.tar.xz
Fix a bug in how pr -m -s works.
* NEWS: Describe how the fix affects pr. * src/pr.c (init_parameters): The --merge (-m) option does not imply --expand-tabs (-e), so don't set "untabify_input". Reported by Wis Macomson. * tests/misc/pr: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add pr. * THANKS: Update.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
the DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. It
is still affected by POSIXLY_CORRECT, though.
+ Using pr -m -s (i.e. merging files, with TAB as the output separator)
+ no longer inserts extraneous spaces between output columns.
+
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable]
** Bug fixes