From 4f37ca2cf3800a1dc439f8d05902a5c6f0c80bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:14:08 +0000 Subject: Shorten the du --files0-from announcement, and say "NUL-terminated" rather than "NUL-separated". --- NEWS | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 058bd05e3..842f676d3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,12 +6,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of - NUL-separated file names. This is useful for running du --total (-c) - when the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line - length limitation. In such cases, using xargs is undesirable because - it splits the list into pieces and makes du give a total for each sublist - rather than for the entire list. + du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a + list of NUL-terminated file names. `date -d' and `touch -d' now accept integer counts of seconds since 1970 when prefixed by `@'. For example, `@321' represents -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2