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-rw-r--r--NEWS3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b03621b97..9423d8d22 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
* Version 5.1.0.
+ * src/du.c: Accept new option (-0, --null) that makes it so each
+ output line is NUL-terminated rather than newline-terminated.
+
* src/dd.c (apply_translations): Don't prohibit conv=unblock,sync.
Reported by Volker Paul.
* tests/dd/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add unblock-sync.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4e49c1997..1ecbdb74e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
not portable anyway, even with old GNU ls where the columns became
ragged when a datum was too wide.
+ du accepts a new option, -0/--null, to make it produce NUL-terminated
+ output lines
+
** Bug fixes
printf, seq, tail, and sleep now parse floating-point operands