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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index bc7a1f3ee..000000000 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,759 +0,0 @@ -[4.1.11] -* `rm symlink-to-unwritable' doesn't prompt [introduced in 4.1.10] -[4.1.10] -* rm once again gives a reasonable diagnostic when failing to remove a file - owned by someone else in a sticky directory [introduced in 4.1.9] -* df now rounds all quantities up, as per POSIX. -* New ls time style: long-iso, which generates YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. -* Any time style can be preceded by "posix-"; this causes "ls" to - use traditional timestamp format when in the POSIX locale. -* The default time style is now posix-long-iso instead of posix-iso. - Set TIME_STYLE="posix-iso" to revert to the behavior of 4.1.1 through 4.1.9. -* `rm dangling-symlink' doesn't prompt [introduced in 4.1.9] -* stat: remove support for --secure/-s option and related %S and %C format specs -* stat: rename --link/-l to --dereference/-L. - The old options will continue to work for a while. -[4.1.9] -* rm can now remove very deep hierarchies, in spite of any limit on stack size -* new programs: link, unlink, and stat -* New ls option: --author (for the Hurd). -* `touch -c no-such-file' no longer fails, per POSIX -[4.1.8] -* mv no longer mistakenly creates links to preexisting destination files - that aren't moved -[4.1.7] -* rm: close a hole that would allow a running rm process to be subverted -[4.1.6] -* New cp option: --copy-contents. -* cp -r is now equivalent to cp -R. Use cp -R -L --copy-contents to get the - traditional (and rarely desirable) cp -r behavior. -* ls now accepts --time-style=+FORMAT, where +FORMAT works like date's format -* The obsolete usage `touch [-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE...' is no longer - supported on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use touch -t instead. -* cp and inter-partition mv no longer give a misleading diagnostic in some - unusual cases -[4.1.5] -* cp -r no longer preserves symlinks -* The block size notation is now compatible with SI and with IEC 60027-2. - For example, --block-size=1MB now means --block-size=1000000, - whereas --block-size=1MiB now means --block-size=1048576. - A missing `B' (e.g. `1M') has the same meaning as before. - A trailing `B' now means decimal, not binary; this is a silent change. - The nonstandard `D' suffix (e.g. `1MD') is now obsolescent. -* -H or --si now outputs the trailing 'B', for consistency with the above. -* Programs now output trailing 'K' (not 'k') to mean 1024, as per IEC 60027-2. -* New df, du short option -B is short for --block-size. -* You can omit an integer `1' before a block size suffix, - e.g. `df -BG' is equivalent to `df -B 1G' and to `df --block-size=1G'. -* The following options are now obsolescent, as their names are - incompatible with IEC 60027-2: - df, du: -m or --megabytes (use -BM or --block-size=1M) - df, du, ls: --kilobytes (use --block-size=1K) -[4.1.4] -* df --local no longer lists smbfs file systems whose name starts with // -* dd now detects the Linux/tape/lseek bug at run time and warns about it. -[4.1.3] -* ls -R once again outputs a blank line between per-directory groups of files. - This was broken by the cycle-detection change in 4.1.1. -* dd once again uses `lseek' on character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. - On systems with the linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.16), dd must still - resort to emulating `skip=N' behavior using reads on tape devices, because - lseek has no effect, yet appears to succeed. This may be a kernel bug. -[4.1.2] -* cp no longer fails when two or more source files are the same; - now it just gives a warning and doesn't copy the file the second time. - E.g., cp a a d/ produces this: - cp: warning: source file `a' specified more than once -* chmod would set the wrong bit when given symbolic mode strings like - these: g=o, o=g, o=u. E.g., `chmod a=,o=w,ug=o f' would give a mode - of --w-r---w- rather than --w--w--w-. -[4.1.1] -* mv (likewise for cp), now fails rather than silently clobbering one of - the source files in the following example: - rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c -* ls -R detects directory cycles, per POSIX. It warns and doesn't infloop. -* cp's -P option now means the same as --no-dereference, per POSIX. - Use --parents to get the old meaning. -* When copying with the -H and -L options, cp can preserve logical - links between source files with --preserve=links -* cp accepts new options: - --preserve[={mode,ownership,timestamps,links,all}] - --no-preserve={mode,ownership,timestamps,links,all} -* cp's -p and --preserve options remain unchanged and are equivalent - to `--preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps' -* mv and cp accept a new option: --reply={yes,no,query}; provides a consistent - mechanism to control whether one is prompted about certain existing - destination files. Note that cp's and mv's -f options don't have the - same meaning: cp's -f option no longer merely turns off `-i'. -* remove portability limitations (e.g., PATH_MAX on the Hurd, fixes for - 64-bit systems) -* mv now prompts before overwriting an existing, unwritable destination file - when stdin is a tty, unless --force (-f) is specified, as per POSIX. -* mv: fix the bug whereby `mv -uf source dest' would delete source, - even though it's older than dest. -* chown's --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP option now works -* cp now ensures that the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are cleared for - the destination file when when copying and not preserving permissions. -* `ln -f --backup k k' gives a clearer diagnostic -* ls no longer truncates user names or group names that are longer - than 8 characters. -* ls's new --dereference-command-line option causes it to dereference - symbolic links on the command-line only. It is the default unless - one of the -d, -F, or -l options are given. -* ls -H now means the same as ls --dereference-command-line, as per POSIX. -* ls -g now acts like ls -l, except it does not display owner, as per POSIX. -* ls -n now implies -l, as per POSIX. -* ls can now display dates and times in one of four time styles: - - - The `full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style timestamps like - `2001-05-14 23:45:56.477817180 -0700'. - - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style timestamps like '2001-05-14 ' - and '05-14 23:45'. - - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent timestamps like - 'touko 14 2001' and 'touko 14 23:45' (in a Finnish locale). - - The 'posix-iso' time style gives traditional POSIX-locale - timestamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user - specifies a non-POSIX locale, in which case it uses ISO-style dates. - This is the default. - - You can specify a time style with an option like --time-style='iso' - or with an environment variable like TIME_STYLE='iso'. GNU Emacs 21 - and later can parse ISO dates, but older Emacs versions cannot, so - if you are using an older version of Emacs outside the default POSIX - locale, you may need to set TIME_STYLE="locale". - -* --full-time is now an alias for "-l --time-style=full-iso". - -Changes in release 4.1: -[4.0.45] -* dd conv=sync,block now pads only with spaces -* ls's -1 option no longer cancels the effect of a preceding -l -* regenerate configure using a patched version of autoconf-2.49e to work - around a bug in its test for a working memcmp function -* ls: fix off-by-one error introduced with the previous change -[4.0.44] -* ls: When given two or more arguments but the only one that exists is a - directory, don't treat it as if it were the only argument. Before, - `mkdir d; ls no-dir d 2>/dev/null' would act like `ls d' and produce - no output. Now, it prints `d:'. -* touch -d 'last friday' would use a timestamp that was one hour off - (e.g., 23:00 on *thursday* rather than 00:00 of the preceding friday) - when run such that the current time and the target date/time fall on - opposite sides of a daylight savings time transition. - This problem arises only with relative date strings like `last monday'. - It is not a problem with strings that include absolute dates. -[4.0.43] -* regenerate configure-related files using autoconf-2.49d -[4.0.42] -* Using ls's short-named `-H' option evokes the warning that the - meaning of `-H' will soon change. Use `--si' instead. -[4.0.41] -* fix bug in rm introduced in 4.0.38: `chmod 0 f; rm f' would no longer prompt - before removal. -[4.0.40] -* portability fixes, mainly for UnixWare 7.1.1 -[4.0.39] -* cp and mv accept --strip-trailing-slashes, not just --strip-trailing-slash -[4.0.38] -* ls --full-time now implies -l; before, without -l it was a no-op -[4.0.37] -* portability fixes for SunOS4.1.1, Fujitsu (f300-fujitsu-uxpv4.1_ES), - and Unicos (alphaev5-cray-unicosmk2.0.5.X) -[4.0.36] -* `mv dir/ new-name' no longer fails on SunOS4.1.1U -* attempting to use mv to move a symlink onto itself no longer removes - the symlink -* `cp -R directory file' no longer removes `file'. now it fails and gives - a diagnostic -* The manual now warns that ls's --full-time format string is planned - to change in a future release. -* ls -l's timestamp format now depends on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES, - as POSIX requires. -* ls -l now reports the year for files even slightly in the future, as - POSIX requires. This helps warn users about clock skew problems. -* `cp -d file symlink-to-some-other-file' no longer fails -* performance improvements for ls -[4.0.35] -* ln --backup=simple --suffix=SUFFIX once again uses SUFFIX -* install: Likewise. -[4.0.34] -* fix a bug (introduced in 4.0z) that made `chown 123:456 file' act like - `chown 123:123 file'. Other uses with a numeric group ID would cause - chown to fail when it shouldn't have. -* the chown and chgrp programs preserve set-uid and set-gid bits, even on - systems for which the chown function call resets those bits. -* `ls -L dangling-symlink' now fails (per POSIX) rather than printing the - link name -* dd no longer honors the just-added `B' suffix on skip= and seek= arguments. -* `mkdir no-such-dir/' no longer fails on NetBSD systems -[4.0.33] -* dd now accepts skip=nB and seek=nB, to advance past some number of bytes, n, - that need not be a multiple of the block size. -* dd (without conv=notrunc) now complains only when ftruncate fails on a - regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object -- not when it fails - to truncate other types of files, like /dev/fd0. -* chmod --changes (-c) once again issues diagnostics only for the files - with changed permissions -* mkdir now gives one diagnostic (rather than two) for certain failures -* mkdir portability fix for NetBSD -[4.0.32] -* touch now interprets a lone numeric argument of 8 or 10 digits as a file name, - rather than as a date/time in the obsolescent `MMDDhhmm[YY]' format. -* mkdir no longer sets the permissions of the final directory component - if it already exists (this bug, too, was introduced recently) -* ls's --full-time format string is now locale dependent -[4.0.31] -* mkdir: fix a bug introduced in 4.0.30 whereby `mkdir existing-dir' would - succeed. Now it fails, as it should (and used to). -[4.0.30] -* mkdir: fix a bug introduced in 4.0.28 whereby parent directories created - via `mkdir -p' would have permissions that did not account for the umask -[4.0.29] -* ls.c wouldn't compile on some systems: fix it -* `cp -R --parents dir1/ dir2' failed on NetBSD, due to a portability problem -[4.0.28] -* ls is much more efficient on systems (e.g., linux-2.4.*) that store file - type information in directory entries. -* shred now automatically determines the size of each block device argument -* ls's date/time format strings are now locale dependent -* mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, and chmod work better in conjunction with ACLs -* `cp --parents dir1/ dir2' no longer gets a failed assertion -* shred now determines the size of block devices like /dev/fd0 -* `shred --exact file1 file2' now erases `file1', too -[4.0.27] -* install once again unlinks an existing destination before trying to open it -* mv no longer gets a failed assertion when moving a directory (specified with - a trailing slash) from one partition to another, and giving it a different - name at the destination. -* `cp --link -f src existing-dest' no longer fails (bug introduced in 4.0z) -* cp's new --remove-destination option now works with -R -[4.0z] -* `cp -p' once again preserves `special' permission bits (this bug was - introduced in 4.0y) -* mv's --force (-f) option now controls solely whether mv prompts (per POSIX) -* `cp -f' now first attempts to open an existing destination file, and only - if that fails does it resort to unlinking the file and retrying the open. - Before, it would unlink the file before trying to open it. -* cp accepts a new option, --remove-destination, that provides the old behavior -* cp's -f option no longer cancels the effect of --interactive (-i) (per POSIX) -* when ls sorts directory entries, it now honors the current locale settings -* dd's `skip=BLOCKS' operator once again works on systems with a buggy lseek - function (Linux, at least on SCSI tape devices) -* fix a typo in install-sh -[4.0y] -* cp now accepts the POSIX-mandated -H and -L options. -* cp -p and mv now try to preserve uid even if you're not root, as per POSIX.2. - This affects behavior only on hosts that let you give files away via chmod. -* du would fail when given `.' or `..' followed by other command line arguments -* Using cp's short-named `-P' option evokes the warning that the - meaning of `-P' will soon change. Use `--parents' instead. -* chgrp, chmod, and chown: when used with the --verbose option, might give an - invalid diagnostic (due to clobbered errno) when failing. -[4.0x] -* Fix cp so that `cp -r DIR1/ DIR2' works properly once again. -* New ls option --quoting-style=clocale acts like --quoting-style=locale, - except that it quotes "like this" by default instead of `like this'. -[4.0w] -* When `cp -pR' fails to copy a file, it now preserves permissions, owner, - and group of the containing directory. -[4.0v] -* df, du, and ls now round disk usage up and disk free space down -* df, du, ls: --block-size=N now works for values of N that are e.g., - not a multiple of the file's block size -[4.0u] -* give proper diagnostic for mv usage error -* fix compile problem with lib/strnlen.c -[4.0t] -* `cp -d -u' no longer fails with certain existing destination symlinks -* rmdir and mkdir accept -v as synonym for --verbose -[4.0s] -* rm no longer segfaults on certain very deep hierarchies -* IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX: a running `rm -r' may no longer be subverted to - remove unintended directories -* cp can now remove unwritable files in interactive mode; contrary to how mv - works, cp's --interactive (-i) option does *not* cancel the effect of a - preceding --force (-f) option. -* all programs fail when printing --help or --version output to a full device -* install no longer performs chmod if chown fails (see ChangeLog for example) -[4.0r] -* `du dir/subdir1 dir/subdir2' no longer fails -* chown accepts new option: --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP -* cp accepts new option: --strip-trailing-slashes -* install --directory (-d) may now be used to set special bits - e.g., `install -m a=rwx,o+t -d DIR' now honors the `o+t' part -* cp, mv, ln, install: document that while the --backup option takes an - optional argument, the -b option accepts none -* `ls -e' fails with a more useful diagnostic -* df produces better output for loop file system mount points -[4.0q] -* install -D bug is fixed -* chown now works properly when the specified login name contains a period - This is at the expense of always looking up the entire USER.GROUP string - as a login name first, and only then (upon failure) interpreting the `.' - as a separator and looking up `USER'. To avoid the extra getpwnam call, - always use the POSIX-mandated `:' character as the separator. -* `du some-other-dir' no longer fails if it can't open the current directory -* `mv DIR EXISTING-FILE' no longer removes EXISTING-FILE. Now it gets an error - as POSIX says it must. -* touch no longer hangs on fifos -[4.0p] -* various tools: quote multibyte characters correctly in diagnostics -* mv: portability fix for alpha -* dd: portability fix -* unified lib/: now that directory and most of the configuration framework - is common between fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils -[4.0o] -* Include lib/nanosleep.h. -[4.0n] -* cp, install, ln, and mv: when making backup files in verbose mode, these - commands now print the backup file name on the same line as the rest of the - information, e.g., `a -> b (backup: b.~13~)' rather than on a separate line - as all but ln used to do. ln didn't output the backup file name at all. -[4.0m] -* mv accepts new option: --strip-trailing-slashes (soon, many other - programs will, too) -* df no longer hangs when there is an inaccessible mount point unrelated to PATH -* rmdir --verbose no longer prints extra, bogus diagnosic upon failure -* fix df bug that made it print bogus values in the `Use%' column. -* touch -d once again parses dates with `hh:mm ZONE' time zone info. -[4.0l] -* ls -l honors a trailing slash on a symlink argument, per POSIX. -* shred no longer appears to infloop when asked to remove files in - unwritable directories -* `ls -ul' and `ls -uc' sort by name once again, as they should -[4.0k] -* mv may now be used to move a file onto a symlink to itself when that - symlink is on a separate partition. With fileutils-4.0j, it would - fail with a diagnostic saying they were the same file. -* touch would fail with the misleading diagnostic `no such file' when asked - to create a file in an unwritable directory. Now it says something like - `permission denied' or `read-only file system'. -[4.0j] -* mkdir may now be used to set special bits e.g., `mkdir -m o+t dir' works -* touch can now change the time(s) of a file you own even if you don't have - read or write access to it -* rm no longer dumps core after warning about directory cycles -* mv now refuses to move a file onto a symlink to itself when that symlink - is on a separate partition. Before, it would remove the file and leave - only the symlink. -* `install -d -g foo 1/2' now sets the `group' of the final component as well - as that of the leading one. -* df, du, and ls no longer divide by zero when an invalid block size is - specified through an environment variable -* under certain conditions, chgrp would fail to affect files referenced - through symlinks. Now it does. -* ln now makes hard links to symlinks on systems that support it. -* touch: no longer infloop on dangling symlinks -* cp, install, ln, mv: deprecate the --version-control option. Use --backup's - new optional argument instead. The old option still works, but now evokes a - warning. -* cp, install, ln, mv: the --backup option now accepts an optional argument -* cp, install, ln, mv: accept new option: --target-directory=DIR -* chgrp: accept new option, --dereference. --no-dereference is now the default. -* New ls option --quoting-style=locale acts like --quoting-style=c, except - with locale-specific quoting symbols (` and ' by default) instead of ". -* `df DIR' is less likely to hang due to bad NFS mounts -* As per POSIX.2, `df -P' now uses ceiling rather than rounding, and its - header now says `1024-blocks ... Capacity' instead of `1k-blocks ... Use%'. -[4.0i] -* `cp -f FILE FILE' and `mv -f FILE FILE' no longer remove FILE -* touch works once again (DST-wise) when certain `--date DATE-TIME' - values are specified. -* shred's -u option (short form of --remove) is now accepted -[4.0h] -* cp --one-file-system (-x) no longer crosses filesystem boundaries. -* touch can once again operate on directories -[4.0g] -* New large-file support for AIX and HP-UX, and for cross-compiles. -* shred's default options are now suitable for devices, not files, since - shred is more reliable on devices. shred now does not remove by default; - the old -p or --preserve option was inverted and renamed to -u or --remove. -* shred -u now attempts to truncate devices before removing them. -* shred -v no longer outputs carriage-returns; shred -vv has no extra effect; - shred -v now outputs to stderr. -* shred now tries to find the size of a non-regular file by seeking to its end. -* dd now opens the output file for *read* access only if `seek=' is used. -[4.0f] -* `ls --color' no longer segfaults -* dd works once again -[4.0e] -* shred --devices option renamed to -D so that -d, -i and -r can be - compatible with rm. -* shred -s/--size=N option added to specify the size of the object to be - shredded. -* `shred -' now shreds stdout rather than stdin. This is incompatible with -v. -* shred now does not need to read from its output file, so opens it O_WRONLY -* `ls -l' uses `+' to designate each file that has a custom ACL -* eliminate race condition that could make touch truncate a nonempty file -* No longer use *_unlocked I/O macros on systems (like solaris5.5.1) where - they're not declared, so selected executables (e.g., rm) that are linked - with shared libraries will once again run on solaris5.6 systems. -[4.0d (aka 4.1-b3)] -* ls recognizes solaris 2 `doors' -* new program: shred -* ln: Allow creation of a hard link to a dangling symlink -* cp, mv, install: --verbose now prints a message for each backup-related - renaming -* portability fixes for copy.c's code to detect move-directory-into-self -* upgrade to automake-1.3b -* upgrade to autoconf-2.13, and... -* remove some of the kludges in m4/*.m4 that permitted -[4.1-b2] -* concurrent `mkdir -p' processes no longer fail when creating the - same hierarchy -* argmatch.c has been fixed so that the unambiguous usage `ls --color=n' - no longer evokes an error. -* now, specifying an improper argument for an option that accepts enumerated - values evokes diagnostics like this: - $ src/touch --time=x file - src/touch: invalid argument `x' for `--time' - Valid arguments are: - - `atime', `access', `use' - - `mtime', `modify' - Try `src/touch --help' for more information. -[4.1-b1] -* ls --quoting-style=c prints correct octal escapes for certain nonprinting - characters in file names. -* fix `ls -R .' formatting bug that broke mktexlsr -* moving a directory into itself is properly diagnosed in more cases -* moving a directory containing hard-linked files now works - -Changes in release 4.0: -[4.0-b7] -* rm -rf '' no longer gets a failed assertion on the Hurd -[4.0-b6] -* rm simply fails as it should (rather than segfaulting) for - `mkdir -m 0100 x; rm -rf x' -[4.0-b5] -* still *more* mktime.c portability tweaks -[4.0-b4] -* mktime.c portability tweak for headers with GNU libc 5.4.44. -[4.0-b3] -* mktime.c works around problems with Digital Unix 4.0A and 4.0D. -* mktime.c handles dates in the spring-forward gap the same way other - implementations do -* install accepts long option --suffix=SUFFIX -[4.0-b2] -* man/Makefile.maint framework tweaks -* add test for `mv -i' bug -[4.0-pre1] -* fix serious bug whereby `touch a b; echo n|mv -i a b' would remove b. -[3.16z] -* portability tweaks -* avoid `root `cp -a' from Netapp snapshot' corruption -[3.16y] -* `install -D' now works -* distribute maintainer Makefiles in man/ -[3.16x] -* man pages are now automatically generated from a combination of --help - output and the contents of new (though mostly empty), man/*.x files. -[3.16w] -* touch now interprets `-t TIME-DATE' as POSIX specifies -* `ls EMPTY-DIR EMPTY-DIR' once again outputs the directory names -[3.16v] -* portability fixes -* `ls -R EMPTY-DIR' now outputs the name of the directory -[3.16u] -* mv now fails (as it should) upon attempt to move a directory into itself -* `cp -a --one-file-system' now copies any mount point directories it - encounters on the selected file system. -[3.16t] -* cp (with --update) and ls compare timestamps with subsecond resolution when - available (e.g., on systems with recent Linux kernels and on Solaris 2.6). -* install once again does the -m-specified chmod *after* running strip - (this fixes another bug introduced in 3.16o) -[3.16s] -* df accept a new option --local (-l) -* touch works around a system-specific bug so it now affects existing, - zero-length files on certain systems -* chown now works even on certain SVR3 systems where it used to fail -[3.16r] -* include gettext's m4 macros -* minor cp bug fixed -* non-portable cp tests removed -* --without-included-regex now means don't compile regex.c -* rx support removed -[3.16q] -* `df', `du', and `ls' now accept a new option --block-size=SIZE, - where SIZE can be a positive integer block size, followed by an - optional SI prefix (e.g. `k' for kilo, `M' for Mega), followed by an - optional `B' (for ``byte'', indicating powers of 1024, which is the - default) or `D' (for ``decimal byte'', indicating powers of 1000). - SIZE can also be `human-readable' (for -h or --human-readable - behavior) or `si' (for -H or --si behavior). -* These suffixes can also be used by `dd'; e.g. `dd bs=1MB' is equivalent - to `dd bs=1048576'. -* The default block size for the `df' command is now obtained from the - DF_BLOCK_SIZE environment variable or, if that is not set, from BLOCK_SIZE. - Similarly for `du' and `ls'. -* The output columns of `df' have been adjusted slightly to accommodate - larger filesystems. -* fix gettext-related link failures seen when configuring certain ways -[3.16p] -* fix install bug introduced in 3.16o -* build/test changes only -[3.16o] -* chown accepts new option, --dereference. --no-dereference is now the default. -* install now shares core copying code with mv and cp -* mv (between distinct filesystems) now uses more of the core copying code -* fixed a bug or two in mv -* df once again displays negative numbers when that's what's returned - by get_fs_usage -[3.16n] -* `mv dir dir' once again does *not* remove dir/ -* ls accepts new options: - --indicator-style=none (no indicators, the default) - --indicator-style=classify (all indicators) - (equivalent to -F or --classify) - --indicator-style=file-type (file type indicators) - (equivalent to -p or --file-type) - - --quoting-style=literal (do not quote output) - --quoting-style=shell (minimally quote output for the shell) - --quoting-style=shell-always (always quote output with '' for the shell) - --quoting-style=c (quote output as for a C-language string) - (equivalent to -Q or --quote-name) - --quoting-style=escape (like c but omit enclosing "") - (equivalent to -b or --escape) - - --show-control-chars is the opposite of --hide-control-chars - This option can be useful if output is to a terminal, - to override the default beahvior of hiding control characters. - -* The QUOTING_STYLE environment variable can now be used to specify the - default value for ls's --quoting-style option. If not specified, - the default quoting style is 'literal', but this default may change to - 'shell' in a future version of this package. -* ls's quoting style now affects operands in diagnostics, too. -* ls's --dired option now outputs the quoting style - using the format of the new --quoting-style option. -* ls's -e or --quote-shell option (introduced in 3.16j) has been removed; - use --quoting-style=shell to get its functionality. -[3.16m] -* mv can move (and doesn't read) special files -* remove maintainer mode -[3.16l] -* mv can finally move non-regular files between partitions -[3.16k] -* install accepts new option, -D -[3.16j] -* du accepts new options, --exclude=PAT and --exclude-from=FILE (-X FILE) -* ls now quotes file names for the shell by default, if they contain - characters that need quoting. Use -N to get the old default behavior. - The new behavior is also enabled by the new option -e or --quote-shell. -* ln --backup is now consistent with cp and mv in that --force is no longer - required when the destination is an existing non-directory. -* install accepts new option, --verbose (-v) -* mkdir -p is a lot faster when creating very deep directories on some systems -* rm -i no longer exits with status indicating failure solely because the - user declines to remove a file -* rm -r is a lot faster on some systems when removing deep hierarchies -* chgrp, chmod, and chown no longer give contradictory output when --verbose - is used and an operation fails -* ls's multicolumn option now uses variable width columns to conserve - vertical space -* install accepts new option, --preserve-timestamps -* du --megabytes --total now shows total in megabytes -* ls accepts new option, -h or --human-readable -* df, du, and ls now accept new option, -H or --si, for powers of 1000 not 1024 -* df, du, and ls now consistently round to nearest, with ties going to even -* df, du, and ls now use `k' instead of `K' for `kilo', - and support larger abbreviations T(era), P(eta), E(xa), Z(etta), Y(otta) -* touch -d DATE now works on Unicos -* du accepts new option --max-depth=N -* rmdir accepts new options: --ignore-fail-on-non-empty and --verbose -* on most hosts df, du, and ls now overflow at 2**64 bytes, not 2**31 bytes -* all programs now work on large files on LFS systems like Solaris 2.6 and - Linux with the pre-2.1 development version of GNU libc. -* df now works with OpenBSD 2.1 beta -* cp -d FILE SYMLINK-TO-FILE doesn't erase FILE. Now it gives an error. - -Changes in release 3.16: -* du --megabytes (-m) works -* ls -l works even on systems with non-POSIX strftime in their C library - -Changes in release 3.15: -* touch --date=DATE bug (due to broken getdate.y) has been fixed -* ls -l no longer misformats the date when run in a locale for which the - locale's abbreviated week-day name (strftime's %a format) is shorter or - longer than the `normal' three bytes (with LANG=de it's a two-byte string). -* Using --program-prefix no longer applies the prefix twice -* ls --color properly restores color attributes upon completion when the - normal (`no') color attribute is not the default color. -* with ls -s --color, the `total' and size of the first file are printed -* ls --color stats symlinks and distinguishes between regular symlinks - and orphan ones. -* cp --preserve preserves owner and group of symlinks on Linux when run - with EUID == 0 -* dircolors no longer accepts --print-data-base (alternate spelling of - --print-database) - -Changes in release 3.14: -* ls --color highlights based on suffix rules only for regular files -* touch --date=DATE accepts dates like those in an RCS log listing, e.g., - `1992/11/01 05:44:34'. -* install SRC DST no longer rejects non-regular, non-directory SRC -* df accepts -F as a synonym for -t for compatibility with Solaris -* cp -i /dev/null existing-file now prompts before overwriting the target -* ls --color highlights orphaned symlinks text on terminals that support it -* ls -l honors current locale with respect to abbreviated month names (and, - with --full-time day names) on systems with a locale-supporting strftime - function, e.g., ones based on recent versions of the GNU C library -* ls -l recognizes Cray's migrated dmf files. -* chgrp no longer aborts when given a group number larger than INT_MAX -* chgrp now fails when run by root with an unrecognized group name -* when possible, cp -p preserves owner/group even on symlinks in case - they're in a directory that has the sticky-bit set. -* cp --recursive --parents SRC DEST works when SRC is an absolute file name. - -Changes in release 3.13: -* ls properly determines window size on SunOS and Solaris systems -* ls accepts new option --color[=WHEN] where WHEN is `always', `never', - or `auto'. --color=never is the default. --color is equivalent - to --color=always. -* new program: dircolors -* ls allows 0 as argument to --tabsize (-T) option. Using --tabsize=0 - inhibits the use of TAB characters for separating columns. -* you can create a backup of FILE with cp --force --backup FILE FILE. Before, - that command failed saying that ``FILE' and `FILE' are the same file'. -* uses automake-generated Makefile templates -* chown and chgrp accept new option --no-dereference (-h) -* ln -f FILE FILE fails with a diagnostic rather than silently removing FILE -* when building on systems that have getopt_long (most GNU-oriented ones), - the system-provided function will be used -- so executables may be a - little smaller -* cp -p, and mv modify owner and/or group of symlinks on systems - (like Solaris) that provide the lchown system call. -* df no longer invokes the sync system call by default. You can use the - --sync option to make df invoke sync before getting file system sizes. -* internationalized diagnostic messages -* mkdir accepts new option: --verbose -* `cp file D/' uses the full file name `D/file' instead of `D//file'. -* cp --backup a~ a fails instead of silently destroying the source file -* df and du have new options --human-readable (-h) and --megabytes (-m). -* install now honors --backup (-b), --suffix=SUFFIX (-S SUFFIX), and - --version-control=WORD (-V WORD) options just as cp, ln, and mv do. -* ln --verbose output is less prone to misinterpretation -* ls -o works like -lG; for compatibility with other versions of ls -* cp has a new option to control creation of sparse files: - --sparse={auto,always,never}. --sparse=auto is the default. -* rm -rf '' behaves properly on SunOS 4 systems -* touch: rename long option name, --file, to --reference. - `touch --file' will continue to work a little longer. -* df fails if the same file system type is both selected and excluded. -* df works around SunOS statfs brokenness wrt filesystems larger than 2GB -* df better handles inconsistent mtab entries -* `ls -lDR dir dir2' works -* `ls -c' does what it's supposed to -* all programs include program name in --version output -* `ls --quote-name' works -* mv properly determines whether src and dest are the same file - Before, it could (though with very low probability) fail to do the move, - reporting that distinct source and destination are the same file. -* du --dereference (-L) works with directory symlinks -* du works on SunOS 4 systems even when accounting is enabled -* many programs that convert strings to integers now use strtol or strtoul - and detect overflow - -User-visible changes in release 3.12: -* None. -User-visible changes in release 3.11: -* None. -User-visible changes in release 3.10: -* mkdir -p now ignores arguments that are existing directories. Before, - (contrary to POSIX spec) it would attempt to change ownership and/or - protections of existing directories listed on the command line. And - it would fail when such a directory was owned by another user. -* Fix bug in cp that made the commands `mkdir dir; touch foo; cp -P foo dir' - incorrectly change the permissions on directory, dir. -* df accepts a new option, --no-sync, that inhibits the default invocation - of the sync system call. -* ls accepts a new option, --dired, that makes emacs' dired mode more efficient -* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes) -* ln accepts a new option: --no-dereference (-n). With this option, - if the destination command line argument is a symlink to a directory, - use that as the destination instead of the file in the directory. -* `ln -i no-such-file existing-file' gives a diagnostic and fails. - Before, if you responded `yes' to the prompt it would both remove - `existing-file' and fail to make a link. -* du no longer requires read access to all of the directory components - of the current working directory on systems with fchdir. -* touch -d 'date' is no longer off by one hour. -* New program: sync. -* Fix bug in cp that made the commands `ln -s . s; cp -rd s r' incorrectly - create `r' as a symlink instead of as a regular file. -* du's -S and -c options now work when used together. - Before, the grand total was always reported to be zero. - -Major changes in release 3.9: -* --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the - correspondence between short and long-named options. -* work around systems with BROKEN_STAT_MACROS -* work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of - ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory - and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure. -* GNU chmod treats symlinks the same way other vendor's versions do. - Now symlinks listed on the command line are processed (they were - ignored before); the permissions of the dereferenced files are - changed. Symlinks encountered in recursive traversals are still - ignored. This makes GNU chmod act more like e.g. Sun's. -* configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of - some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D. -* ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems -* cp, mkdir, and rmdir long option --path renamed to --parents; --path - will still work for a while -* cp, ln, and mv convert `cp A B/' to cp A B/A when A is not a directory. - This change affects only the two-argument form of the commands. It makes - such commands fail when the target has a trailing slash but is not a - directory or symlink to a directory and the source is not a directory. - They used to succeed, ignoring the implicitly contradictory trailing slash. - -Major changes in release 3.8: -* install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors -* avoid redundant compilations for `dir' and `vdir'; -* configure properly defines STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE on a Pyramid MIServer - running OSx 5.1 - -Major changes in release 3.7: -* none -Major changes in release 3.6: -* `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash -* with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately -* GNU ls -f works like Unix ls -f -* mktime replacement works - -Major changes in release 3.5: -* adds support for DEC Alpha under OSF/1 -* configuring with gcc uses CFLAGS='-g -O' by default -* all programs accept --help and --version options -* long-named options must be introduced with `--'; `+' is no longer - accepted since it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard -* chmod accepts long-named options -* dd conv=unblock doesn't hang -* new df option --exclude=fstype -* new ls option --full-time - -Major changes in release 3.4: -* cp -p and mv preserve setuid and setgid bits -* chown works on systems where sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(int) - or sizeof(uid) != sizeof(gid) -* catch errors from spurious slashes at ends of arguments - -Major changes in release 3.3: -* df sped up by not calling sync for every filesystem -* df ported to AIX (RS/6000 and PS/2), and SVR2 port fixed -* df -i now also prints the total number of inodes per filesystem -* ls sped up by not reading symlink contents unnecessarily -* du doesn't die on POSIX systems when the root filesystem is NFS mounted -* cp and mv report chown Permission denied errors when run by root - -======================================================================== - -Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover -Texts. 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