From 6767712f7e04717e711eb092bedb7a07ab988342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:10:39 +0000 Subject: Add shuf. Mention new --random-source option for shred and sort. Move "sort +1 -2" notice to the appropriate section, and clarify its role with respect to POSIXLY_CORRECT. --- NEWS | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c1cd384f1..916c774ca 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -114,10 +114,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than silently ignoring one of them. - sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" when conforming - to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to POSIX. - However, "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1". - stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0: FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release containing this change was 5.92. @@ -158,6 +154,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sha256sum: print or check a SHA256 (256-bit) checksum sha384sum: print or check a SHA384 (384-bit) checksum sha512sum: print or check a SHA512 (512-bit) checksum + shuf: Shuffle lines of text. ** New features @@ -186,8 +183,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection against mistakes. + shred and sort now accept the --random-source option. + sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option. + sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" unless + POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. However, when conforming to POSIX + 1003.1-2001 "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1". + wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of NUL-terminated file names. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2