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NEWS item for head -c 1G, etc.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: NEWS item for head -c 1G, etc.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:05:59 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

I forgot to include a NEWS item for the May 2 change on size suffixes.
Sorry about that.  Here it is:

2007-05-14  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * NEWS: Mention the suffix change installed on 2007-05-02.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ea3aafb..ed3ab49 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

   Add SELinux support (FIXME: add details here)

+  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.
+  For example, `head -c 2GB' now outputs the first two gigabytes of input.
+
 ** Bug fixes

   ls -x DIR would sometimes output the wrong string in place of the
M ChangeLog
M NEWS
Committed as de321417125fb6e3e99c8ca06ecf3a9ac0c11b8a




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