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@@ -59,10 +59,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
date: a command like date -d '2006-04-23 21 days ago' would print
the wrong date in some time zones. (see the test for an example)
- df now considers "none" and "proc" file systems to be dummies and
- therefore does not normally display them. Also, inaccessible file
- systems (which can be caused by shadowed mount points or by chrooted
- bind mounts) are now dummies, too.
+ df changes:
+
+ df now considers "none" and "proc" file systems to be dummies and
+ therefore does not normally display them. Also, inaccessible file
+ systems (which can be caused by shadowed mount points or by
+ chrooted bind mounts) are now dummies, too.
+
+ df now fails if it generates no output, so you can inspect the
+ exit status of a command like "df -t ext3 -t reiserfs DIR" to test
+ whether DIR is on a file system of type "ext3" or "reiserfs".
expr no longer complains about leading ^ in a regular expression
(the anchor is ignored), or about regular expressions like A** (the