I forgot to include a NEWS item for the May 2 change on size suffixes.
Sorry about that. Here it is:
2007-05-14 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* NEWS: Mention the suffix change installed on 2007-05-02.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ea3aafb..ed3ab49 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*-
outline -*-
Add SELinux support (FIXME: add details here)
+ The following commands and options now support the standard size
+ suffixes kB, M, MB, G, GB, and so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y: head -c,
+ head -n, od -j, od -N, od -S, split -b, split -C, tail -c, tail -n.
+ For example, `head -c 2GB' now outputs the first two gigabytes of input.
+
** Bug fixes
ls -x DIR would sometimes output the wrong string in place of the
M ChangeLog
M NEWS
Committed as de321417125fb6e3e99c8ca06ecf3a9ac0c11b8a
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