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.
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
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.