[4.5.5] * ls --dired produces correct byte offset for file names containing nonprintable characters in a multibyte locale * du has been rewritten to use a variant of GNU libc's ftw.c * du now counts the space associated with a directory's directory entry, even if it cannot list or chdir into that subdirectory. * du -S now includes the st_size of each entry corresponding to a subdirectory * rm on FreeBSD can once again remove directories from NFS-mounted file systems * ls has a new option --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir, which corresponds to the new default behavior when none of -d, -l -F, -H, -L has been specified. * ls dangling-symlink now prints `dangling-symlink'. Before, it would fail with `no such file or directory'. * ls -s symlink-to-non-dir and ls -i symlink-to-non-dir now print attributes of `symlink', rather than attributes of their referents. * Fix a bug introduced in 4.5.4 that made it so that ls --color would no longer highlight the names of files with the execute bit set when not specified on the command line. * shred's --zero (-z) option no longer gobbles up any following argument. Before, `shred --zero file' would produce `shred: missing file argument', and worse, `shred --zero f1 f2 ...' would appear to work, but would leave the first file untouched. * readlink: new program * cut: new feature: when used to select ranges of byte offsets (as opposed to ranges of fields) and when --output-delimiter=STRING is specified, output STRING between ranges of selected bytes. * rm -r can no longer be tricked into mistakenly reporting a cycle. * when rm detects a directory cycle, it no longer aborts the entire command, but rather merely stops processing the affected command line argument. [4.5.4] * cp no longer fails to parse options like this: --preserve=mode,ownership * `ls --color -F symlink-to-dir' works properly * ls is much more efficient on directories with valid dirent.d_type. * stty supports all baud rates defined in linux-2.4.19. * `du symlink-to-dir/' would improperly remove the trailing slash * `du ""' would evoke a bounds violation. * In the unlikely event that running `du /' resulted in `stat ("/", ...)' failing, du would give a diagnostic about `' (empty string) rather than `/'. * printf: a hexadecimal escape sequence has at most two hex. digits, not three. * The following features have been added to the --block-size option and similar environment variables of df, du, and ls. - A leading "'" generates numbers with thousands separators. For example: $ ls -l --block-size="'1" file -rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert src 47,483,707 Sep 24 23:40 file - A size suffix without a leading integer generates a suffix in the output. For example: $ ls -l --block-size="K" -rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert src 46371K Sep 24 23:40 file * ls's --block-size option now affects file sizes in all cases, not just for --block-size=human-readable and --block-size=si. Fractional sizes are now always rounded up, for consistency with df and du. * df now displays the block size using powers of 1000 if the requested block size seems to be a multiple of a power of 1000. * nl no longer gets a segfault when run like this `yes|nl -s%n' [4.5.3] * du --dereference-args (-D) no longer fails in certain cases * `ln --target-dir=DIR' no longer fails when given a single argument [4.5.2] * `rm -i dir' (without --recursive (-r)) no longer recurses into dir * `tail -c N FILE' now works with files of size >= 4GB * `mkdir -p' can now create very deep (e.g. 40,000-component) directories * rmdir -p dir-with-trailing-slash/ no longer fails * printf now honors the `--' command line delimiter * od's 8-byte formats x8, o8, and u8 now work * tail now accepts fractional seconds for its --sleep-interval=S (-s) option [4.5.1] * du and ls now report sizes of symbolic links (before they'd always report 0) * uniq now obeys the LC_COLLATE locale, as per POSIX 1003.1-2001 TC1. This package began as the union of the following: textutils-2.1, fileutils-4.1.11, sh-utils-2.0.15.