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User-visible changes in release 1.13
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* tail works on NetBSD
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* md5sum reads and writes (de facto) standard Plumb/Lankester format
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* sort accepts -.1 +.2 options for compatibility
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* od works properly when dump limit is specified and is a multiple of
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bytes_per_block (set by --width, 16 by default).
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User-visible changes in release 1.12
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* sort no longer reports spurious errors on Ultrix systems
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* new program: md5sum
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* all --help messages have been improved
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* join's -a1 and -a2 options work
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* tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' no longer reads uninitialized memory
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* sort properly handles command line arguments like `+7.2n'
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* fmt properly formats paragraphs not terminated by a newline
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* tail -f flushes stdout before sleeping so that it will output partial
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lines sooner
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* sort properly orders fields where one field is a proper prefix of the other
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* sort properly interprets field offsets specified via the -k option
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* dd, od, and tail work on systems for which off_t is long long (e.g. BSD4.4)
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* wc is faster when not counting words
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* wc now works even when file pointer isn't at beginning of file
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* expand no longer seg faults with very long tab lists
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User-visible changes in release 1.11
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* fmt is built
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User-visible changes in release 1.10
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* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
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* new program: fmt
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* tail -f on multiple files reports file truncation
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* tail -q has been fixed so it never prints headers
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* wc -c is much faster when operating on non-regular files
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* unexpand gives a diagnostic (rather than a segfault) when given a name of
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a nonexistent file.
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* cat, csplit, head, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, and wc no longer fail
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gratuitously when continued after a suspended read or write system call.
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* cut interprets -d '' to mean `use the NUL byte as the delimiter' rather
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than reporting that no delimiter was specified and failing.
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* `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3,4' prints `c:'. Before it printed just `c'.
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* cut has been rewritten, is markedly faster for large inputs, and passes a
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fairly large test suite.
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* sort properly handles the argument to the -T option.
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Major changes in release 1.9.1:
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* cut no longer ignores the last line of input when that line lacks a
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trailing newline character
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Major changes in release 1.9:
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* `echo a:b:c: | cut -d: -f3-' prints `c:' and
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`echo a:b | cut -d: -f1' prints `a'.
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* the command `printf '\t\n' |fold -w n' now terminates.
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Before, it wouldn't stop for n less than 8.
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* sort accepts and ignores -y[string] options for compatibilty with Solaris.
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* cat -v /dev/null works on more systems
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* od's --compatible (-C) flag renamed to --traditional (no short option)
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* --help and --version exit successfully
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* --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
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correspondence between short and long-named options.
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* fix bug in cut. Now `echo 'a:b:c:' | cut -d: -f3-' works.
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Before it printed `c' instead of `c:'
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* csplit allows repeat counts to be specified via `{*}'.
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* csplit accepts a new option, --suffix=format that supercedes the
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--digits option. The --digits option will continue to work.
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* csplit accepts a new option, --elide-empty-files.
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* configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
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some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
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* work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
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../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
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and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
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Major changes in release 1.8:
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* added non-ANSIfied version of memchr.c from GNU libc.
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Major changes in release 1.7:
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* none
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Major changes in release 1.6:
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* with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
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* pr -2a really terminates
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* pr -n produces multi-column output
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Major changes in release 1.5:
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* sort is 8-bit clean
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* sort's -n and -M options no longer imply -b
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* several bugs in sort have been fixed
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* all programs accept --help and --version options
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* od --compatible accepts pre-POSIX arguments
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* pr -2a terminates
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Major changes in release 1.4:
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* add od and cksum programs
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* move cmp to GNU diff distribution
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* tail -f works for multiple files
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* pr prints the file name in error messages
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* fix some off by 1 errors in pr and fold
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* optimize wc -c on regular files
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* sort handles `-' argument correctly
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* sort supports -T option
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* tr ranges like a-a work
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* tr x '' fails gracefully
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* default sum output format is BSD compatible
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* paste -d '' works
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