character in a field that has fewer than N characters
* tail with old-style options like -20k and +31m operates on units of bytes,
as the --help usage message says. Before, it used units of lines.
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Changes in release 1.15
* od gives better diagnostics for invalid format specs
* uses automake-generated Makefile templates
* sort accepts new option: -z for NUL terminated records
* join accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
* uniq accepts new option: --ignore-case, -i
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User-visible changes in release 1.14
* sort -i and sort -d properly order strings containing ignored characters
* nl: rename misleading --first-page=N option to --starting-line-number=N.