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| -rw-r--r-- | old/textutils/NEWS | 26 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS index 9419bc99e..fedccdcfb 100644 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ b/old/textutils/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,29 @@ Changes in release 2.1 +[2.0.21] +* The following obsolete usages are no longer supported on systems conforming + to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which prohibits most digit-string options: + expand -N (instead, use expand -t N) + head -N (instead, use head -c N or head -n N) + fold -N (instead, use fold -w N) + split -N (instead, use split -l N) + tail -N (instead, use tail -c N or tail -n N) + unexpand -N (instead, use unexpand --first-only -t N) + uniq -N (instead, use uniq -f N) + The following obsolete usages (options without arguments) are no + longer supported on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which + prohibits most options with optional arguments: + od -s (instead, use od --strings) + od -w (instead, use od --width) + pr -S (instead, use pr --sep-string) [2.0.20] * tr no longer gets failed a assertion for [==] or [::] * The following obsolete usages are no longer supported on systems conforming - to POSIX 1003.1-2001: - - sort +POS1 -POS2 (Use sort -k instead.) - - tail +N (Use tail -n instead.) - - uniq +N (Use uniq -s instead.) + to POSIX 1003.1-2001, which prohibits most options with leading "+": + sort +POS1 -POS2 (instead, use sort -k) + tail +N (instead, use tail -c +N or tail -n +N) + uniq +N (instead, use uniq -s N) +* Warnings are issued for obsolete usages on older hosts, + unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment. * sort -m no longer segfaults when given an empty file * sort -S now accepts 'K' as a synonym for 'k'. * wc recognizes all locale-defined white-space characters, not just those |