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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-02-01 15:19:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-02-01 15:36:56 +0000 |
| commit | f86bb6967dba1e2b6026997963a90e00cd641490 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b4451e967924bfba4c42f9c819c0e33b1b53c95 /NEWS | |
| parent | 819aa9eba741c36bb522cbc2c7f10e24d190f945 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f86bb6967dba1e2b6026997963a90e00cd641490.tar.xz | |
join: make -t '' operate on the whole line
Previously passing an empty parameter to -t would
raise an error, but now it means to treat each line
as a single field for matching. This matches the
default operation of `sort` which is usually used
in conjunction with join.
* src/join.c (main): Set the field delimiter to '\n' if
an empty parameter is passed to -t.
(usage): Mention the operation of -t ''.
* tests/misc/join: Add 2 new tests, for the existing -t '\0'
and the new -t '' functionality.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention that
join -t '' always operates on the whole line, while
join -t '\0' usually does.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ls --color no longer emits the final 3-byte color-resetting escape sequence when it would be a no-op. + join -t '' no longer emits an error and instead operates on + each line as a whole (even if they contains NUL characters). + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.4 (2010-01-13) [stable] |