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- Changes in release 1.19
- * md5sum can verify digests of files with names containing newline characters
- * update from gettext-0.10.20.
-
- Changes in release 1.18
- * when building sort, link with -lm on systems that use the replacement strtod
- * update from gettext-0.10.17.
-
- Changes in release 1.17
- * include texinfo.tex in the distribution
-
- Changes in release 1.16
- * sort is compatible with Unix sort when a key-end spec refers to the N'th
- character in a field that has fewer than N characters
- * tail with old-style options like -20k and +31m operates on units of bytes,
- as the --help usage message says. Before, it used units of lines.
-
- Changes in release 1.15
- * od gives better diagnostics for invalid format specs
- * uses automake-generated Makefile templates
- * configure takes a new option: --enable-maintainer-mode
- * fix a bug in fmt when prefix has trailing white space
- * internationalized diagnostic messages
- * fix a couple bugs in tr involving use of -c and/or -d flags -- see ChangeLog
- * diagnose some improper or questionable invocations of csplit
- * properly handle `echo |csplit - 1 1', rather than aborting
- * fix join: without -t it now ignores leading blanks
- * sort accepts new option: -z for NUL terminated records
- * join accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
- * uniq accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
-
- User-visible changes in release 1.14
- * sort -i and sort -d properly order strings containing ignored characters
- * nl: rename misleading --first-page=N option to --starting-line-number=N.
- * sort diagnoses invalid arguments to -k, then fails
- * sort -n properly orders invalid integers with respect to valid integers
- * sorting works with character offsets larger than corresponding field width
- * sort's -b option and `b' modifier work
- * sort -k2,2 works.
- * csplit detects integer overflow when converting command line arguments
- * sort accepts new option/flag, -g, for sorting numbers in scientific notation
- * join accepts POSIX `-o 0' field specifier.
- * tr 'a[b*512]' '[a*]' < /dev/null terminates
- * tr '[:*3][:digit:]' 'a-m' and tr 'a[=*2][=c=]' 'xyyz' no longer fail
- * special characters in tr's string1 and string2 may be escaped with backslash
-
- User-visible changes in release 1.13
- * md5sum: with --check, distinguish between open/read failure and bad checksum
- * md5sum: remove -h, -s, -v short options
- * md5sum: rename --verbose to --warn, --quiet to --status
- * md5sum --check fails if it finds no properly formatted checksum lines
- * sort -c prints `disorder on...' message on standard error, not stdout
- * sort -k works as described in the texinfo documentation
- * tail works on NetBSD
- * md5sum reads and writes (de facto) standard Plumb/Lankester format
- * sort accepts -.1 +.2 options for compatibility
- * od works properly when dump limit is specified and is a multiple of
- bytes_per_block (set by --width, 16 by default).
-
- User-visible changes in release 1.12
- * sort no longer reports spurious errors on Ultrix systems
- * new program: md5sum
- * all --help messages have been improved
- * join's -a1 and -a2 options work
- * tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' no longer reads uninitialized memory
- * sort properly handles command line arguments like `+7.2n'
- * fmt properly formats paragraphs not terminated by a newline
- * tail -f flushes stdout before sleeping so that it will output partial
- lines sooner
- * sort properly orders fields where one field is a proper prefix of the other
- * sort properly interprets field offsets specified via the -k option
- * dd, od, and tail work on systems for which off_t is long long (e.g. BSD4.4)
- * wc is faster when not counting words
- * wc now works even when file pointer isn't at beginning of file
- * expand no longer seg faults with very long tab lists
-
- User-visible changes in release 1.11
- * fmt is built
-
- User-visible changes in release 1.10
- * skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
- * new program: fmt
- * tail -f on multiple files reports file truncation
- * tail -q has been fixed so it never prints headers
- * wc -c is much faster when operating on non-regular files
- * unexpand gives a diagnostic (rather than a segfault) when given a name of
- a nonexistent file.
- * cat, csplit, head, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, and wc no longer fail
- gratuitously when continued after a suspended read or write system call.
- * cut interprets -d '' to mean `use the NUL byte as the delimiter' rather
- than reporting that no delimiter was specified and failing.
- * `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3,4' prints `c:'. Before it printed just `c'.
- * cut has been rewritten, is markedly faster for large inputs, and passes a
- fairly large test suite.
- * sort properly handles the argument to the -T option.
-
- Major changes in release 1.9.1:
- * cut no longer ignores the last line of input when that line lacks a
- trailing newline character
-
- Major changes in release 1.9:
- * `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3-' prints `c:' and
- `echo a:b | cut -d: -f1' prints `a'.
- * the command `printf '\t\n' |fold -w n' now terminates.
- Before, it wouldn't stop for n less than 8.
- * sort accepts and ignores -y[string] options for compatibilty with Solaris.
- * cat -v /dev/null works on more systems
- * od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --traditional (no short option)
- * --help and --version exit successfully
- * --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
- correspondence between short and long-named options.
- * fix bug in cut. Now `echo 'a:b:c:' | cut -d: -f3-' works.
- Before it printed `c' instead of `c:'
- * csplit allows repeat counts to be specified via `{*}'.
- * csplit accepts a new option, --suffix=format that supercedes the
- --digits option. The --digits option will continue to work.
- * csplit accepts a new option, --elide-empty-files.
- * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
- some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
- * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
- ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
- and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
-
- Major changes in release 1.8:
- * added non-ANSIfied version of memchr.c from GNU libc.
-
- Major changes in release 1.7:
- * none
- Major changes in release 1.6:
- * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
- * pr -2a really terminates
- * pr -n produces multi-column output
-
- Major changes in release 1.5:
- * sort is 8-bit clean
- * sort's -n and -M options no longer imply -b
- * several bugs in sort have been fixed
- * all programs accept --help and --version options
- * od --compatible accepts pre-POSIX arguments
- * pr -2a terminates
-
- Major changes in release 1.4:
- * add od and cksum programs
- * move cmp to GNU diff distribution
- * tail -f works for multiple files
- * pr prints the file name in error messages
- * fix some off by 1 errors in pr and fold
- * optimize wc -c on regular files
- * sort handles `-' argument correctly
- * sort supports -T option
- * tr ranges like a-a work
- * tr x '' fails gracefully
- * default sum output format is BSD compatible
- * paste -d '' works
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