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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-12-08 08:38:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-12-08 08:38:37 +0000 |
| commit | a6616a3786e3751c34f77100530796b141e84cb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c4f0c38168ccb63a3c9e13e36207713c6ec93f6 /NEWS | |
| parent | db98a73a397ad97ae187373fcdeeb869f381e2f3 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a6616a3786e3751c34f77100530796b141e84cb8.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: ls -l (and similar options) now adjust all columns to
fit the data. Generalized from a suggestion by Leah Q for file sizes.
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- (--dereference-args, aka -D) rather then the current meaning of --si. Now, using -H elicits a warning to that effect. + When given -l and similar options, ls now adjusts the output column + widths to fit the data, so that output lines are shorter and have + columns that line up better. This may adversely affect shell + scripts that expect fixed-width columns, but such shell scripts were + not portable anyway, even with old GNU ls where the columns became + ragged when a datum was too wide. + ** Bug fixes printf, seq, tail, and sleep now parse floating-point operands |