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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-01-08 14:31:27 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-01-13 10:59:56 +0000
commit826c98b02486dd9dbbab3d2381d5f778af42dd7a (patch)
tree24177f02817887f4ca8e63844e68770086c663ae /NEWS
parenta499a0ce583a8d941e50c4da450133e694994d17 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-826c98b02486dd9dbbab3d2381d5f778af42dd7a.tar.xz
tac: support an empty (NUL) --separator
* doc/coreutils.texi (tac invocation): Mention the NUL delineation with an empty --separator. * src/tac.c (main): Allow an empty separator when -r not specified. * tests/misc/tac.pl: Add test cases. * NEWS: Mention the new feature. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/8103
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@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
- cut, head, tail now have -z, --zero-terminated options to work with
- NUL delimited items.
+ cut, head, tail now have the -z,--zero-terminated option, and
+ tac --separator accepts an empty argument, to work with NUL delimited items.
dd now summarizes sizes in --human-readable format too, not just --si.
E.g., "3441325000 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied". It omits the summaries