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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
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@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort -g now uses long doubles for greater range and precision. + sort -h no longer mishandles comparisons such as 5MiB vs 5MB, or + 6000K vs 5M. It uses floating-point arithmetic for these cases, + though, which means that the comparisons are not exact. This is not + a problem when sorting the output of df, du, and ls because this + output contains so few digits before suffixes. + + sort -h no longer rejects numbers ending in trailing "." or having + leading ".". It no longer accepts numbers with multiple "." or + numbers with thousands separators. + sort now uses the number of available processors to parallelize the sorting operation. The number of sorts run concurrently can be limited with the --parallel option or with external process |