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echo compatibility cleanup.

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Jim Meyering
2004-06-01 12:47:45 +00:00
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@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1
echo now conforms to POSIX better. It supports the \0ooo syntax for
octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately. If
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now
outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options.
** New features
For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file
@@ -86,6 +91,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
`date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
nanosecond-resolution time stamps.
echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH,
for compatibility with bash.
* Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]