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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-01-09 01:38:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-01-13 11:11:36 +0000 |
| commit | 3ed89ae9324026660dfefb5e482e91b8acc5262d (patch) | |
| tree | 77025a5cb78df0fd5ffad2929a3023181b37c4a1 /NEWS | |
| parent | 672663e1b0afd68a10d991527fd5021c40c99acc (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3ed89ae9324026660dfefb5e482e91b8acc5262d.tar.xz | |
wc: avoid ambiguous output with '\n' in file names
* src/wc.c (write_counts): Shell escape the file name
if it contains '\n' so only a single line per file is output.
* tests/misc/wc-files0.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- pseudo file systems "bpf_fs", "btrfs_test", "nsfs", "overlayfs" and "tracefs", and remote file system "acfs". + wc now ensures a single line per file for counts on standard output, + by quoting names containing '\n' characters; appropriate for use in a shell. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.24 (2015-07-03) [stable] |