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Add shuf. Mention new --random-source option for shred and sort.

Move "sort +1 -2" notice to the appropriate section, and clarify its
role with respect to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
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Paul Eggert
2006-08-08 22:10:39 +00:00
parent d578d8a8be
commit 6767712f7e

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@@ -114,10 +114,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
silently ignoring one of them.
sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" when conforming
to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to POSIX.
However, "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1".
stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0:
FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release
containing this change was 5.92.
@@ -158,6 +154,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
sha256sum: print or check a SHA256 (256-bit) checksum
sha384sum: print or check a SHA384 (384-bit) checksum
sha512sum: print or check a SHA512 (512-bit) checksum
shuf: Shuffle lines of text.
** New features
@@ -186,8 +183,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection
against mistakes.
shred and sort now accept the --random-source option.
sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option.
sort now supports obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" unless
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. However, when conforming to POSIX
1003.1-2001 "sort +1" still sorts the file named "+1".
wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
list of NUL-terminated file names.