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** New features
- By default, sort usually compresses each temporary file it writes.
+ sort's new --compress-program=PROG option specifies a compression
+ program to use when writing and reading temporary files.
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