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| author | Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> | 2013-02-14 15:29:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-02-28 01:49:56 +0000 |
| commit | 6eb51ce29e962bc13586261bd0e1de4780c269ff (patch) | |
| tree | 737687e0f2bb181a1eff21700ffbe848be1f1da7 /NEWS | |
| parent | 551128ebd71d1216ccc807eccee91190d6b21462 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6eb51ce29e962bc13586261bd0e1de4780c269ff.tar.xz | |
join: Add the -z, --zero-terminated option
* NEWS: Mention join's new option: --zero-terminated (-z).
* src/join.c: Add new option, --zero-terminated (-z), to make
join use the NUL byte as separator/delimiter rather than newline.
(get_line): Use readlinebuffer_delim in place of readlinebuffer.
(main): Handle the new option.
(usage): Describe new option the same way sort does.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the new option.
* tests/misc/join.pl: add tests for -z option.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- permissions. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] +** New features + + join accepts a new option: --zero-terminated (-z). As with the sort,uniq + option of the same name, this makes join consume and produce NUL-terminated + lines rather than newline-terminated lines. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.21 (2013-02-14) [stable] |