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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-06-28 23:49:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-06-28 23:49:58 +0000 |
| commit | 3869e2919673f91152f351a0e5211ddaec74682c (patch) | |
| tree | 4b8f70cbdfac10f3ede89e4e0b3fdf64fe105317 /NEWS | |
| parent | ab621d9fa1e854418c7bffb7fbf35a4c6c3f8620 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3869e2919673f91152f351a0e5211ddaec74682c.tar.xz | |
Support obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" even when conforming to
POSIX 1003.1-2001.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than silently ignoring one of them. + sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" when conforming + to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to POSIX. + However, "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1". + stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0: FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release containing this change was 5.92. |