From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:14:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Shorten the du --files0-from announcement, and say X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1947 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f37ca2cf3800a1dc439f8d05902a5c6f0c80bb4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git Shorten the du --files0-from announcement, and say "NUL-terminated" rather than "NUL-separated". --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 058bd05e35..842f676d3c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,12 +6,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a list of - NUL-separated file names. This is useful for running du --total (-c) - when the list of file names is so long that it may exceed a command line - length limitation. In such cases, using xargs is undesirable because - it splits the list into pieces and makes du give a total for each sublist - rather than for the entire list. + du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a + list of NUL-terminated file names. `date -d' and `touch -d' now accept integer counts of seconds since 1970 when prefixed by `@'. For example, `@321' represents