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authorRichard Russon <rich@flatcap.org>2015-09-26 14:22:26 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-01-13 10:59:55 +0000
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parentb2eadd109c3a508011705761dfe24a35180d925d (diff)
downloadcoreutils-bc94551f63cfc4c05a56628dfcb386707d9e98cb.tar.xz
head,tail: add the -z,--zero-terminated option
* doc/coreutils.texi: Reference the option description. * src/head.c: Parameterize the delimiter character. * src/tail.c: Likewise. * tests/misc/head.pl: Add test case. * tests/misc/tail.pl: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
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@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Its status=progress output now uses the same format as ordinary status,
perhaps with trailing spaces to erase previous progress output.
+ head, tail now have -z, --zero-terminated options to work with
+ NUL delimited items.
+
md5sum now supports the --ignore-missing option to allow
verifying a subset of files given a larger list of checksums.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.