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2005-05-28dd seek=N now conforms to POSIX if the output isn't seekable.Paul Eggert
2005-05-27expr and test now correctly compare integers of unlimited size.Paul Eggert
2005-05-26nohup now redirects a tty stdin to an unreadable fd instead of closing it.Paul Eggert
2005-05-13rm now performs run-time test to work around buggy readdir implementationsJim Meyering
2005-05-12nohup now closes stdin if it is a terminal, unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.Paul Eggert
2005-05-08cp, ln, mv, rm no longer discard white space when intepreting responses.Paul Eggert
2005-05-06dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".Paul Eggert
2005-05-04chmod -w now complains if it differs from chmod a-w.Paul Eggert
2005-05-02ls --indicator-style=directory renamed to lsPaul Eggert
2005-05-01"chmod +1 foo" is now diagnosed.Paul Eggert
2005-04-29Fix typo in ls POSIX changes.Paul Eggert
2005-04-29ls -p now appends only directories. New optionPaul Eggert
2005-04-28Document recent modechange fixes.Paul Eggert
2005-04-26Restore support for usages like "head -1" and "tail -1",Paul Eggert
2005-04-23nohup now exits with status 127 (not 1) when given an invalid option.Paul Eggert
2005-04-22"mkdir -m =+x dir" no longer ignores the umask when evaluating "+x",Paul Eggert
2005-04-09Document that dd no longer treats QUIT or PIPE specially,Paul Eggert
2005-03-19"pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does.Paul Eggert
2005-03-19nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out.Paul Eggert
2005-03-14Reword ls time-stamp limit issue.Paul Eggert
2005-03-11ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes.Paul Eggert
2005-02-28*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-02-21dd now uses a real-time clock if available, for transfer statistics.Paul Eggert
2005-02-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-02-08Document stat -f -c %S, plus changes to default formats.Paul Eggert
2005-01-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-10Document changes responding to POSIX interpretations about pathchk -pPaul Eggert
2005-01-09*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-08*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-08*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-07Include today's date.Jim Meyering
2005-01-05*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-01-05 du --exclude=P now compares pattern P against the entire nameJim Meyering
2005-01-04*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2004-12-19* NEWS: Mention that one should eval "`dircolors`" rather thanPaul Eggert
2004-12-15mention tac bug fixJim Meyering
2004-12-11chown race fixJim Meyering
2004-12-09ls now exits with status 1 on minor problems, 2 if serious trouble.Paul Eggert
2004-12-08Document new UTC+HH:MM date syntax, and put date changes together.Paul Eggert
2004-12-04Mention cut's new --complement option.Jim Meyering
2004-11-20Add noctty flag to dd.Paul Eggert
2004-11-16New dd operand "status=noxfer".Paul Eggert
2004-11-15dd now outputs total bytes, seconds, and bytes per second.Paul Eggert
2004-11-13Document today's changes to "sort".Paul Eggert
2004-11-12Document recent changes to "pr".Paul Eggert
2004-10-30Document getdate changes.Paul Eggert
2004-10-29`tac /proc/modules' would print nothingJim Meyering
2004-10-21*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2004-10-21*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering