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@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than silently ignoring one of them. + stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0: + FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release + containing this change was 5.92. + + stat accepts the new option --printf=FMT, where FMT is *not* + automatically newline terminated. + works, backslash escapes in FMT *are* interpreted. + + stat: backslash escapes are interpreted in a format string specified + via --printf=FMT, but not one specified via --format=FMT. That includes + octal (\ooo, at most three octal digits), hexadecimal (\xhh, one or + two hex digits), and the standard sequences (\a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, + \v, \", \\). + ** Scheduled for removal rm's --directory (-d) option is scheduled for removal in 2006. This |