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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2007-02-19 22:11:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-02-19 22:11:18 +0100 |
| commit | c363fcb9f06cec38040cf4294521096aa70179d9 (patch) | |
| tree | bce2a2960c9016ec2979efad9a1572c1f9471d83 /NEWS | |
| parent | e189deb855253b184b64fc1e532c2f00f438ae64 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c363fcb9f06cec38040cf4294521096aa70179d9.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: sort now uses a --compress-program option rather than
an environment variable.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this.
* src/sort.c (usage): Likewise.
(COMPRESS_PROGRAM_OPTION): New const.
(long_options, create_temp, main): Support new option.
* tests/misc/sort-compress: Test it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- -* Noteworthy changes in release 6.7-dirty (????-??-??) [stable] +* Noteworthy changes in release 6.7-dirty (????-??-??) [not-unstable] ** Bug fixes @@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features By default, sort usually compresses each temporary file it writes. - When sorting very large inputs, this can result in sort using far - less temporary disk space and in improved performance. + This can help save both time and disk space when sorting large inputs. + The default compression program is gzip, but this can be overridden + with sort's new --compress-program=PROG option. ** New features |