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stat: revert behavior of --format=FMT (-c)

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stat: add new option: --printf=FMT
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Jim Meyering 2005-12-15 12:24:54 +00:00
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@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
silently ignoring one of them.
stat's --format=FMT option now works the way it did before 5.3.0:
FMT is automatically newline terminated. The first stable release
containing this change was 5.92.
stat accepts the new option --printf=FMT, where FMT is *not*
automatically newline terminated.
works, backslash escapes in FMT *are* interpreted.
stat: backslash escapes are interpreted in a format string specified
via --printf=FMT, but not one specified via --format=FMT. That includes
octal (\ooo, at most three octal digits), hexadecimal (\xhh, one or
two hex digits), and the standard sequences (\a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t,
\v, \", \\).
** Scheduled for removal
rm's --directory (-d) option is scheduled for removal in 2006. This