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2007-10-07New program: mktemp.Jim Meyering
2007-09-24* NEWS: The recent rm-diagnostic fix also affects cross-partition "mv".Jim Meyering
2007-09-22rm: give a sensible diagnostic when failing to remove a symlinkJim Meyering
2007-09-07chmod: don't ignore a dangling symlinkJim Meyering
2007-08-23Don't let ln be a party to destroying user data.Jim Meyering
2007-08-21By default, do not install hostname anymore.Jim Meyering
2007-08-20NEWS: note that a cp -p bug fixed in 6.7 affected releases before 6.0.Paul Eggert
2007-08-20Avoid consuming too much seekable input when yesno is used.Eric Blake
2007-08-15od --skip (-j) works even on files in /proc, when the kernel liesJim Meyering
2007-08-14od: fix a bug that arises when skipping exact length of fileJim Meyering
2007-07-31du: print size (probably incomplete) of each inaccessible directoryJim Meyering
2007-07-31Add a test for du not counting size of inaccessible directories.Jim Meyering
2007-07-29Attempt to copy a regular file, even if stat says it is empty.Jim Meyering
2007-07-24NEWS: Move the other "sort" entry from the 6.9 section into 6.10 "Bug fixes".Jim Meyering
2007-07-24sort: add a test to exercise the affected code.Jim Meyering
2007-07-20Document and add a test for today's sort bug fix.Jim Meyering
2007-07-19"cp -i --update older newer" no longer prompts; same for mvJim Meyering
2007-07-14Remove long-deprecated options.Jim Meyering
2007-07-13Warn about non-portable use of unescaped backslash at end of string,Jim Meyering
2007-07-10Skip "arch" test if it's not built.Jim Meyering
2007-07-10Add support for enabling/disabling installation of specified programs.Jim Meyering
2007-07-10New program: archKarel Zak
2007-07-04pr -F no longer suppresses the footer or the first two blank header linesPaul Eggert
2007-06-23seq no longer mishandles cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",Paul Eggert
2007-06-18A few more symlink-related fixes. Fix a bug triggered by cpPaul Eggert
2007-06-15Correct cp's handling of destination symlinks in some cases.Paul Eggert
2007-06-10bug-fix: cp would fail to write through a dangling symlinkJim Meyering
2007-05-26wc: ignore multibyte-character decoding errorsJames Youngman
2007-05-22cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid, andJim Meyering
2007-05-22"cut -f 2-0" now fails; before, it was equivalent to "cut -f 2-"Jim Meyering
2007-05-22stty: diagnose an invalid hex value in 35-colon commmand-line argumentJim Meyering
2007-05-13Add -z option to uniq. Originally proposed by Egmont Koblinger.James Youngman
2007-05-07* NEWS: Mention that last week's tr bug dates back to 1992.Jim Meyering
2007-05-04tr -c: don't abort when translating with S2 larger than complement of S1Jim Meyering
2007-04-24* THANKS: Add Andreas Frische.Jim Meyering
2007-04-12split --line-bytes=N (-C N): don't create an empty file.Paul Eggert
2007-04-07Add a test for, and document, today's fix.Jim Meyering
2007-04-02* src/ls.c (print_horizontal): Fix bug reported by Mike Frysinger:Paul Eggert
2007-03-30* NEWS: Mention these SELinux changes.Jim Meyering
2007-03-23Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
2007-03-22Version 6.9.Jim Meyering
2007-03-18Fix a bug in how pr -m -s works.Jim Meyering
2007-03-03Fix a bug: cp -x would fail to set mount point permissions.Andrew Church
2007-02-27Make df -P immune to effects of e.g., the BLOCK_SIZE envvar.Paul Eggert
2007-02-25Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
2007-02-24Version 6.8.Jim Meyering
2007-02-24* NEWS: Use a simple "+" suffix to denote pre-release, not "-dirty".Jim Meyering
2007-02-24* NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default.Paul Eggert
2007-02-19* NEWS: sort now uses a --compress-program option rather thanPaul Eggert
2007-02-03Test for today's gnulib/lib/getcwd.c fix affecting pwd and readlinkJim Meyering