Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated. >> If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format >> string. > > Hmm. I don't know if I like this change--it really screws with > compatability without offering any obvious advantage in my mind.
I do see your point of view, since the `stat' program doesn't feel very new, now. But back when I made the change, it *was* relatively new. And now that I've made 5 releases (two stable) with this behavior, changing stat back to always emit a trailing newline seems like it'd be even more disruptive. FYI, I proposed this change almost two years ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00006.html And checked it in 2 months later, just after the release of 5.2.1. There were no objections. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
