briandfoy/PerlPowerTools: PerlPowerTools-1.047

1.047 2024-09-30T02:33:14Z

• addbib

• fix security issue with calling external process (#732)
• add ed to the supported editors (#733)
• fix database re-opening that was masking a lexical variable (#734)

• ar

• check that there's a defined archive argument before proceeding (#611)
• various internals improvements (#676)
• show system error when we can't read one of the files (#713)
• -t correctly reports missing members now (#727)
• all fils are treated as binary now (#728)
• extract/delete all arguments even if some members are not found (#729)

• awk

• tempfiles are now removed at the end of the run (#714)

• basename

• accept -- as end of options (#723)
• actually support the optional suffix argument (#724)

• bc

• various internals improvements (#592)
• various internals improvements (#600)
• fix regression in modulus 0 operation (#617)
• various internals improvements (#619)
• various internals improvements (#705)

• cal

• various internals improvements (#668)

• cat

• add --version, adjust usage message (#631)
• bypass input processing if none of options -b -e -n -s -t & -v are provided (#638)

• cmp

• adjusted the usage example to show hat -l and -s are mutually exclusive (#621)
• stop if we can't read from the first file (#711)

• col

• various internals improvements (#735)
• add -h for compatibility, although that's what we already do (#736)
• -l is now a no-op, but preserved for legacy operation. (#737)
• add --version (#738)

• cp

• print usage and exit for bad options (#609)
• stop option parsing after -- (#642)
• support bundled options (#649)
• various internals improvements (#679)
• various internals improvements (#680)

• cut

• ensure -b returns the right range of characters (#595)
• various internals improvements (#596)
• -b allows a range of 1 now (#622)

• diff

• -q now causes program to ignore any switch that produces output (#604)
• various internals improvements (#674)
• various internals improvements (#686)
• various internals improvements (#726)

• dirname

• various internals improvements (#716)
• accept -- as end of options (#723)

• du

• various internals improvements (#625)
• various internals improvements (#667)

• ed

• various internals improvements (#598)
• fix the "need to save" flag for the new file case (#618)
• improve state tracking for empty files (#620)
• commands can use inferred line ranges when you omit the first or last value in n,m (#624)
• remove -v in favor of --version (#637)
• fix a regression with searches that produce no matches (#647)
• if i or a command get two addresses, use the second one as the effective address; GNU/BSD compatibility (#655)
• various internals improvements (#656)
• line 0 is no longer valid for write command (#658)
• treat Control-D as the q command so ed exits gracefully (#659)

• expr

• catch a divide-by-zero situation (#626)

• factor

• docs note that this version fixes a bug in the BSD version (#599)
• various internals improvements (#678)
• completely replace factor with a program using the wheel algorithm to make it speedy (#404), from Peter John Acklam (#700)

• false

• various internals improvements (#693)

• fmt

• max width must be greater than zero (#695)
• exit with an error if an argument is a directory rather than skipping it (#696)

• fold

• use getopts to handle argument processing (#692)

• glob

• remove docs for use with Mac Classic (#672)
• various internals improvements (#730)

• grep

• the default for -e is now the empty string, and the value 0 is taken to be a valid pattern (#607)
• allow the search pattern "0" by checking for a defined arg not the arg value (#627)
• allow --version option (#629)
• -f (fixed string mode) now disables pattern matching (#630)
• be more careful with quotemeta and patterns (#633)
• set -s implicitly when -c is used (#634)
• show filenames even without -h set (#635)
• various internals improvements (#641)
• various internals improvements (#671)
• improve handling of - to mean standard input (check was too early) (#690)
• -s and -q were swapped in previous versions. -s is for suppressing errors, -q is for not showing matches (#708)
• show filename if matching multiple files (#709)
• stop looking after first match with -q. (#710)
• various internals improvements (#739)
• various internals improvements (#740)
• -s now exits with correct value if It cannot read the file; -a works correctly if the perl thinks the file is binary and you selected -a (#741)
• various internals improvements (#742)
• -H moved to always show filenames, and highlighting is now -g (#743)
• silence a warning from grep reading stdin. (#744)
• various internals improvements (#745)
• various internals improvements (#746)
• various internals improvements (#747)

• id

• allow gid to be 0 (#715)

• install

• various internals improvements (#602)
• various internals improvements (#644)

• join

• various internals improvements (#605)
• don't allow both -a and -v in the some invocation (#623)

• kill

• various internals improvements (#691)

• ln

• various internals improvements (#616)

• lock

• fix some doc typos (#610)

• look

• various internals improvements (#645)

• ls

• various internals improvements (#606)
• support --version (#657)
• infer -1 switch automatically if the output filehandle is not a tty (#660)

• mail

• support xit as a shorter form of exit (#648)

• mkdir

• various internals improvements (#722)

• mkfifo

• various internals improvements (#681)

• moo

• quit on q or empty input (#725)

• morse

• trim input before processing to avoid an "unknown token" problem (#717)

• nl

• remove -V in favor of --version (#593)
• undocument unsupported -l switch (#615)
• -s only uses default separator when -s is not specified (#651)

• od

• add -a option to print control character names (#646)
• add -s option and make it the same as -I (two byte signed decimal display) (#661)
• add -B as alias for -o (#662) (#663)dd -e and -f for printing two 8-byte floating point numbers per line
• add -H and -X options for 4-byte hex output (#664)
• fix odd cases in output padding (#665)
• add -O for four-byte octal output (#666)

• paste

• don't check that argument - is a literal filename. (#689)

• patch

• various internals improvements (#608)
• various internals improvements (#694)
• remove -x option (debugging) that wasn't doing anything (#699)
• -o complains if its argument is a directory (#701)
• --dry-run is an alias for -C or --check (#702)
• properly catch errors when applying a hunk fails. (#703)
• use File::Temp to get the /dev/null filehandle (#706)
• update to docs for modern GNU version of -D (#712)
• -d DIR now happens before processing, as it should (#718)
• --fuzz argument must be a positive number (#719)
• with --output, use - to send output to standard output (#721)

• pom

• ensure values for columns, rows, and terminal width make sense (#597)

• pr

• don't let column count be zero (no -0 allowed) (#698)

• pwd

• allow --, even though there are no arguments (#731)

• random

• die for bad options (#720)

• rm

• fail and print usage message for unsupported options (#612)
• disable "long" options; single letter options only (#632)
• fix option processing so a filename containing a dash is not included. (#669)
• -f with no arguments exits with 0 and shows usage (#670)

• shar

• various internals improvements (#677)

• sort

• adjust docs to correctly denote that filename args are optional (#687)
• die if an argument is a directory (#688)

• spell

• various internals improvements (#591)
• remove -s to specify extra dictionaries, use + in front of filenames for additional dictionaries (e.g. +other.dict) (#697)

• split

• various internals improvements (#613)
• various internals improvements (#673)
• allow for a directory named - without confusing it for stdin. (#675)

• sum

• various internals improvements (#603)

• tac

• not that -B can be combined with -b and/or -r (#628)

• tail

• filename header for multiple file output now matches GNU and BSD, and the head program in PerlPowerTools (#653)
• remove the -h option to be consistent with GNU / BSD (#654)

• tee

• tee now only ignores SIGINT when -I is specified (#682)
• remove non-standard -n, which suppressed standard output. (#683)
• various internals improvements (#684)
• various internals improvements (#685)
• catch situations where tee cannot write to the destination (#704)

• tr

• tr only reads from standard input now (#636)

• true

• various internals improvements (#693)

• units

• various internals improvements (#590)
• fix usage message (#614)
• fail for a custom units file only if one was specified but does not exist (#707)

• wc

• failures exit with non-zero now (#601)

• whoami

• various internals improvements (#652)

• words

• die if there are two many arguments (#650)

• xargs

• check eof() to know when to stop (#594)
• add pod docs (#639)
• remove hidden alias -l for -L since it's not a BSD option (#640)