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Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Cahnges in new coreutils 6.3

Yes, I know it is not in Arch repo yet, but I just wanted to write something about changes.

** New programs

  base64: base64 encoding and decoding (RFC 3548) functionality.
  sha224sum: print or check a SHA224 (224-bit) checksum
  sha256sum: print or check a SHA256 (256-bit) checksum
  sha384sum: print or check a SHA384 (384-bit) checksum
  sha512sum: print or check a SHA512 (512-bit) checksum
  shuf: Shuffle lines of text.

Nice. At least some base64 encoding/decoding programs from AUR will be not needed now.
BTW, Frugalware's Pacman and makepkg already supports sha1sum. Maybe we should add sha512sum support along with md5sum to pacman & makepkg?

ls accepts the new option --group-directories-first, to make it
  list directories before files.

Cool! Why it haven't been there for years? 

chmod, install, and mkdir now preserve a directory's set-user-ID and
  set-group-ID bits unless you explicitly request otherwise.

install and mkdir now implement the X permission symbol correctly,
  e.g., `mkdir -m a+X dir'; previously the X was ignored.

  install now creates parent directories with mode u=rwx,go=rx (755)
  instead of using the mode specified by the -m option; and it does
  not change the owner or group of parent directories.  This is for
  compatibility with BSD and closes some race conditions.

Hmm... wouldn't it break anything?

rm now rejects attempts to remove the root directory, e.g., `rm -fr /'
  now fails without removing anything.  Likewise for any file name with
  a final `./' or `../' component.

Wow, no more rm -rf / 

Oh, almost forgot: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/cor … &view=auto :-)

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