| 1 | GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) |
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| 2 | * Major changes in release 4.1.7: |
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| 3 | fix problem so that default "-print" is added when "-prune" is used. |
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| 4 | security fixes related to directories changing while find is executing. |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | * Major changes in release 4.1.6: |
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| 7 | correct bug in prune. |
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| 8 | added --ignore-case option for locate |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | * Major changes in release 4.1.5: |
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| 11 | Add support for large files |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | * Major changes in release 4.1.4: |
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| 14 | bug fixes, more up-to-date languages. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | * Major changes in release 4.1.3: |
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| 17 | added internationalization and localization. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | * Major changes in release 4.1.1: |
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| 20 | attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect |
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| 21 | "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | * Major changes in release 4.1: |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | ** Distribution renamed to findutils. |
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| 26 | ** updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin |
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| 27 | instead of $exec_prefix/libexec. |
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| 28 | ** A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | * Major changes in release 4.0: |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | ** Documentation: |
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| 33 | *** Texinfo manual. |
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| 34 | *** Man page for updatedb. |
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| 35 | *** Man page for the locate database formats. |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | ** find: |
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| 38 | *** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend |
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| 39 | trees, so it does fewer inode lookups. |
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| 40 | *** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given. |
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| 41 | *** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include |
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| 42 | and you configure using the --with-afs option. |
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| 43 | *** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | ** locate: |
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| 46 | *** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and |
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| 47 | allows machines with different byte orderings and integer sizes to |
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| 48 | share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the |
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| 49 | old database format automatically. The new databases are typically |
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| 50 | 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in |
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| 51 | file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on |
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| 52 | some systems. |
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| 53 | *** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | ** updatedb: |
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| 56 | *** Takes command-line options. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | ** xargs: |
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| 59 | *** Performance improved 10-20%. |
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| 60 | *** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given. |
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| 61 | *** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result. |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | * Major changes in release 3.8: |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | ** case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex: |
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| 66 | -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex |
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| 67 | ** %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | * Major changes in release 3.7: |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | ** locate can search multiple databases |
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| 72 | ** locate has an option to specify the database path |
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| 73 | ** updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | --//-- |
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| 76 | This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el: |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy |
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| 79 | LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake |
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| 80 | LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC prunefs allout libexec |
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| 81 | LocalWords: testsuite Texinfo chdir inode fstype afs fls ls EOF lname |
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| 82 | LocalWords: regex ilname iname ipath iregex printf fprintf |
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