From 826c98b02486dd9dbbab3d2381d5f778af42dd7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:31:27 +0000 Subject: tac: support an empty (NUL) --separator * doc/coreutils.texi (tac invocation): Mention the NUL delineation with an empty --separator. * src/tac.c (main): Allow an empty separator when -r not specified. * tests/misc/tac.pl: Add test cases. * NEWS: Mention the new feature. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/8103 --- NEWS | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 45f299056..408872b7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - cut, head, tail now have -z, --zero-terminated options to work with - NUL delimited items. + cut, head, tail now have the -z,--zero-terminated option, and + tac --separator accepts an empty argument, to work with NUL delimited items. dd now summarizes sizes in --human-readable format too, not just --si. E.g., "3441325000 bytes (3.4 GB, 3.2 GiB) copied". It omits the summaries -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2