From dcc6638e460a6bc67814045b14309c0018ada535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:57:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS [6.9.90]: head, od, split and tail accept the standard size suffixes --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 597db63..f37a4ef 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-02-07 Jim Meyering + + * NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and + tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and + so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options. + 2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3d714fc..e05e1c3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * ls accepts a slightly modified -Z option. * ls: contrary to Fedora version, does not accept --lcontext and --scontext + The following commands and options now support the standard size + suffixes kB, M, MB, G, GB, and so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y: + head -c, head -n, od -j, od -N, od -S, split -b, split -C, + tail -c, tail -n. + cp -p tries to preserve the GID of a file even if preserving the UID is not possible. -- 2.7.4