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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -39,15 +39,9 @@ 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 -h no longer rejects numbers with leading or trailing ".", and + no longer accepts numbers with multiple ".". It now considers all + zeros to be equal. sort now uses the number of available processors to parallelize the sorting operation. The number of sorts run concurrently can be |