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- Major changes in release 1.9:
- * 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.
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- Major changes in release 1.8:
- * added non-ANSIfied version of memchr.c from GNU libc.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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