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@@ -6,12 +6,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
- du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of
- NUL-separated file names. This is useful for running du --total (-c)
- when the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line
- length limitation. In such cases, using xargs is undesirable because
- it splits the list into pieces and makes du give a total for each sublist
- rather than for the entire list.
+ du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
+ list of NUL-terminated file names.
`date -d' and `touch -d' now accept integer counts of seconds since
1970 when prefixed by `@'. For example, `@321' represents