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@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
processes will not intersperse their output.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]
+ date -d "$(printf '\xb0')" would print 00:00:00 with today's date
+ rather than diagnosing the invalid input. Now it reports this:
+ date: invalid date '\260'
+ [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+
head --lines=-N (-n-N) now resets the read pointer of a seekable input file.
This means that "head -n-3" no longer consumes all of its input, and lines
not output by head may be processed by other programs. For example, this