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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-24 17:38:58 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-24 17:38:58 +0000
commit103a7608b72bbefe374bf918855487d9a1096c39 (patch)
tree4a32eed8352caf6fb588213bc747e949b1b689c5 /NEWS
parent875d29529061317361261a2f640b55f820fa034a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-103a7608b72bbefe374bf918855487d9a1096c39.tar.xz
New environment var BLOCKSIZE.
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@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2004-03-17) [unstable]
-** Bug fixes
-
** New features
+ 'df', 'du', and 'ls' now take the default block size from the
+ BLOCKSIZE environment variable if the BLOCK_SIZE, DF_BLOCK_SIZE,
+ DU_BLOCK_SIZE, and LS_BLOCK_SIZE environment variables are not set.
+ Unlike the other variables, though, BLOCKSIZE does not affect
+ values like 'ls -l' sizes that are normally displayed as bytes.
+ This new behavior is for compatibility with BSD.
+
du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
list of NUL-terminated file names.
@@ -19,6 +24,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
`date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
nanosecond-resolution time stamps.
+** Bug fixes
+
* Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]