[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.93-2

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Tue Jan 17 13:11:00 GMT 2006


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A new release of coreutils, 5.93-2, is available for use, replacing 5.3.0-9.

NEWS:
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This is a new, stable upstream release.  This release was previously
available as a test version, but now that cygwin-1.5.19-2 is out, I have
moved it to current.

Upstream news since 5.3.0 is attached; see also
/usr/share/doc/coreutils-5.93/.

This version also has a new cygwin-specific --append-exe option to ls(1)
(and dir, vdir) and stat(1); if a command-line argument does not have
.exe, but the file on the system does, then using this option will make
the listing show the .exe.  I found this addition to my ~/.bashrc useful
to use the new options (the spacing is chosen so that bash doesn't treat
the next word on the command line as an alias):

ls --append-exe -d . >/dev/null 2>&1 && append_exe=' --append-exe'
alias ls="ls {your favorite options here}$append_exe"
alias stat="stat$append_exe"
unset append_exe

Note that su(1) is UNSUPPORTED; for more details, see
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC42.  However, I am working on a patch
that will allow su to work for privileged accounts (note that in a default
Windows installation, even Administrators don't have enough privileges;
only SYSTEM does), with an appropriate error message for non-privileged
accounts.

DESCRIPTION:
============
GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential
to a standard POSIX environment.  It comprises the former textutils,
sh-utils, and fileutils packages.  The following executables are included:

[ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd
df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold
gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls
md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr
printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort
split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname
unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your system.
Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in
the 'Base' category (it should already be selected).

DOWNLOAD:
=========
Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to
find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
==========
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer

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