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@briandfoy briandfoy released this 30 Sep 02:36
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1.047 2024-09-30T02:33:14Z

  • All changes from Michael Mikonos

  • addbib

    • fix security issue with calling external process (#732)
    • add ed to the supported editors (#733)
    • fix database re-opening that was masking a lexical variable (#734)

  • ar

    • check that there's a defined archive argument before proceeding (#611)
    • various internals improvements (#676)
    • show system error when we can't read one of the files (#713)
    • -t correctly reports missing members now (#727)
    • all fils are treated as binary now (#728)
    • extract/delete all arguments even if some members are not found (#729)

  • awk

    • tempfiles are now removed at the end of the run (#714)

  • basename

    • accept -- as end of options (#723)
    • actually support the optional suffix argument (#724)

  • bc

    • various internals improvements (#592)
    • various internals improvements (#600)
    • fix regression in modulus 0 operation (#617)
    • various internals improvements (#619)
    • various internals improvements (#705)

  • cal

    • various internals improvements (#668)

  • cat

    • add --version, adjust usage message (#631)
    • bypass input processing if none of options -b -e -n -s -t & -v are provided (#638)

  • cmp

    • adjusted the usage example to show hat -l and -s are mutually exclusive (#621)
    • stop if we can't read from the first file (#711)

  • col

    • various internals improvements (#735)
    • add -h for compatibility, although that's what we already do (#736)
    • -l is now a no-op, but preserved for legacy operation. (#737)
    • add --version (#738)

  • cp

    • print usage and exit for bad options (#609)
    • stop option parsing after -- (#642)
    • support bundled options (#649)
    • various internals improvements (#679)
    • various internals improvements (#680)

  • cut

    • ensure -b returns the right range of characters (#595)
    • various internals improvements (#596)
    • -b allows a range of 1 now (#622)

  • diff

    • -q now causes program to ignore any switch that produces output (#604)
    • various internals improvements (#674)
    • various internals improvements (#686)
    • various internals improvements (#726)

  • dirname

    • various internals improvements (#716)
    • accept -- as end of options (#723)

  • du

    • various internals improvements (#625)
    • various internals improvements (#667)

  • ed

    • various internals improvements (#598)
    • fix the "need to save" flag for the new file case (#618)
    • improve state tracking for empty files (#620)
    • commands can use inferred line ranges when you omit the first or last value in n,m (#624)
    • remove -v in favor of --version (#637)
    • fix a regression with searches that produce no matches (#647)
    • if i or a command get two addresses, use the second one as the effective address; GNU/BSD compatibility (#655)
    • various internals improvements (#656)
    • line 0 is no longer valid for write command (#658)
    • treat Control-D as the q command so ed exits gracefully (#659)

  • expr

    • catch a divide-by-zero situation (#626)

  • factor

    • docs note that this version fixes a bug in the BSD version (#599)
    • various internals improvements (#678)
    • completely replace factor with a program using the wheel algorithm to make it speedy (#404), from Peter John Acklam (#700)

  • false

    • various internals improvements (#693)

  • fmt

    • max width must be greater than zero (#695)
    • exit with an error if an argument is a directory rather than skipping it (#696)

  • fold

    • use getopts to handle argument processing (#692)

  • glob

    • remove docs for use with Mac Classic (#672)
    • various internals improvements (#730)

  • grep

    • the default for -e is now the empty string, and the value 0 is taken to be a valid pattern (#607)
    • allow the search pattern "0" by checking for a defined arg not the arg value (#627)
    • allow --version option (#629)
    • -f (fixed string mode) now disables pattern matching (#630)
    • be more careful with quotemeta and patterns (#633)
    • set -s implicitly when -c is used (#634)
    • show filenames even without -h set (#635)
    • various internals improvements (#641)
    • various internals improvements (#671)
    • improve handling of - to mean standard input (check was too early) (#690)
    • -s and -q were swapped in previous versions. -s is for suppressing errors, -q is for not showing matches (#708)
    • show filename if matching multiple files (#709)
    • stop looking after first match with -q. (#710)
    • various internals improvements (#739)
    • various internals improvements (#740)
    • -s now exits with correct value if It cannot read the file; -a works correctly if the perl thinks the file is binary and you selected -a (#741)
    • various internals improvements (#742)
    • -H moved to always show filenames, and highlighting is now -g (#743)
    • silence a warning from grep reading stdin. (#744)
    • various internals improvements (#745)
    • various internals improvements (#746)
    • various internals improvements (#747)

  • id

    • allow gid to be 0 (#715)

  • install

    • various internals improvements (#602)
    • various internals improvements (#644)

  • join

    • various internals improvements (#605)
    • don't allow both -a and -v in the some invocation (#623)

  • kill

    • various internals improvements (#691)

  • ln

    • various internals improvements (#616)

  • lock

    • fix some doc typos (#610)

  • look

    • various internals improvements (#645)

  • ls

    • various internals improvements (#606)
    • support --version (#657)
    • infer -1 switch automatically if the output filehandle is not a tty (#660)

  • mail

    • support xit as a shorter form of exit (#648)

  • mkdir

    • various internals improvements (#722)

  • mkfifo

    • various internals improvements (#681)

  • moo

    • quit on q or empty input (#725)

  • morse

    • trim input before processing to avoid an "unknown token" problem (#717)

  • nl

    • remove -V in favor of --version (#593)
    • undocument unsupported -l switch (#615)
    • -s only uses default separator when -s is not specified (#651)

  • od

    • add -a option to print control character names (#646)
    • add -s option and make it the same as -I (two byte signed decimal display) (#661)
    • add -B as alias for -o (#662)
      (#663)dd -e and -f for printing two 8-byte floating point numbers per line
    • add -H and -X options for 4-byte hex output (#664)
    • fix odd cases in output padding (#665)
    • add -O for four-byte octal output (#666)

  • paste

    • don't check that argument - is a literal filename. (#689)

  • patch

    • various internals improvements (#608)
    • various internals improvements (#694)
    • remove -x option (debugging) that wasn't doing anything (#699)
    • -o complains if its argument is a directory (#701)
    • --dry-run is an alias for -C or --check (#702)
    • properly catch errors when applying a hunk fails. (#703)
    • use File::Temp to get the /dev/null filehandle (#706)
    • update to docs for modern GNU version of -D (#712)
    • -d DIR now happens before processing, as it should (#718)
    • --fuzz argument must be a positive number (#719)
    • with --output, use - to send output to standard output (#721)

  • pom

    • ensure values for columns, rows, and terminal width make sense (#597)

  • pr

    • don't let column count be zero (no -0 allowed) (#698)

  • pwd

    • allow --, even though there are no arguments (#731)

  • random

    • die for bad options (#720)

  • rm

    • fail and print usage message for unsupported options (#612)
    • disable "long" options; single letter options only (#632)
    • fix option processing so a filename containing a dash is not included. (#669)
    • -f with no arguments exits with 0 and shows usage (#670)

  • shar

    • various internals improvements (#677)

  • sort

    • adjust docs to correctly denote that filename args are optional (#687)
    • die if an argument is a directory (#688)

  • spell

    • various internals improvements (#591)
    • remove -s to specify extra dictionaries, use + in front of filenames for additional dictionaries (e.g. +other.dict) (#697)

  • split

    • various internals improvements (#613)
    • various internals improvements (#673)
    • allow for a directory named - without confusing it for stdin. (#675)

  • sum

    • various internals improvements (#603)

  • tac

    • not that -B can be combined with -b and/or -r (#628)

  • tail

    • filename header for multiple file output now matches GNU and BSD, and the head program in PerlPowerTools (#653)
    • remove the -h option to be consistent with GNU / BSD (#654)

  • tee

    • tee now only ignores SIGINT when -I is specified (#682)
    • remove non-standard -n, which suppressed standard output. (#683)
    • various internals improvements (#684)
    • various internals improvements (#685)
    • catch situations where tee cannot write to the destination (#704)

  • tr

    • tr only reads from standard input now (#636)

  • true

    • various internals improvements (#693)

  • units

    • various internals improvements (#590)
    • fix usage message (#614)
    • fail for a custom units file only if one was specified but does not exist (#707)

  • wc

    • failures exit with non-zero now (#601)

  • whoami

    • various internals improvements (#652)

  • words

    • die if there are two many arguments (#650)

  • xargs

    • check eof() to know when to stop (#594)
    • add pod docs (#639)
    • remove hidden alias -l for -L since it's not a BSD option (#640)
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