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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-20 15:22:42 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-20 15:22:42 +0000
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GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Major changes in release 5.0.90:
+** New features
+
+ wc count field widths now are heuristically adjusted depending on the input
+ size, if known. If only one count is printed, it is guaranteed to
+ be printed without leading spaces.
+
+ Previously, wc did not align the count fields if POSIXLY_CORRECT was set,
+ but POSIX did not actually require this undesirable behavior, so it
+ has been removed.
+
** Bug fixes
-- `sort --version' and `sort --help' fail, as they should
+
+ `sort --version' and `sort --help' fail, as they should
when their output is redirected to /dev/full.
-- `su --version > /dev/full' now fails, as it should.
-- uniq -c now uses a SPACE, not a TAB between the count and the
+
+ `su --version > /dev/full' now fails, as it should.
+
+ uniq -c now uses a SPACE, not a TAB between the count and the
corresponding line, as required by POSIX.
-- kill no longer tries to operate on argv[0] (introduced in 5.0.1)
+
+ kill no longer tries to operate on argv[0] (introduced in 5.0.1)
Why wasn't this noticed? Although many tests use kill, none of
them made an effort to avoid using the shell's built-in kill.
-- [ invoked with no arguments no longer evokes a segfault
-- expr now exits with status 2 if the expression is syntactically valid,
+
+ `[' invoked with no arguments no longer evokes a segfault
+
+ expr now exits with status 2 if the expression is syntactically valid,
and with status 3 if an error occurred. POSIX requires this.
-- expr now reports trouble if string comparison fails due to a collation error.
+
+ expr now reports trouble if string comparison fails due to a collation error.
* Major changes in release 5.0.1: