From a6616a3786e3751c34f77100530796b141e84cb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:38:37 +0000 Subject: * NEWS: ls -l (and similar options) now adjust all columns to fit the data. Generalized from a suggestion by Leah Q for file sizes. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c8b00f52b..feb56b914 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- (--dereference-args, aka -D) rather then the current meaning of --si. Now, using -H elicits a warning to that effect. + When given -l and similar options, ls now adjusts the output column + widths to fit the data, so that output lines are shorter and have + columns that line up better. This may adversely affect shell + scripts that expect fixed-width columns, but such shell scripts were + not portable anyway, even with old GNU ls where the columns became + ragged when a datum was too wide. + ** Bug fixes printf, seq, tail, and sleep now parse floating-point operands -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf