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@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1 + echo now conforms to POSIX better. It supports the \0ooo syntax for + octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately. If + POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now + outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options. + ** New features For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file @@ -86,6 +91,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs nanosecond-resolution time stamps. + echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH, + for compatibility with bash. + * Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable] |