PerlPowerTools Files

1.048 2024-12-09T21:14:46Z * All changes from Michael Mikonos * apply - allow a space after -a so it isn't confused with bundled options (#806) * bc - use Math::Trig (released with 5.004) for trig (#857) - change for GNU mathlib to internal perl (#861) - catch situations where there are missing arguments to functions (#865) - simplify docs and correct some typos (#868) * cal - silence some warnings with better checks (#805) * chgrp - accept group ID argument (#798) * chmod - various internals improvements (#813) - exit with 1 if a file fails (#814) - check for redline failures and exit with failure code when they fail (#828) - handle symbolic permissions correctly (#843) * chown - allow numeric UID argument (#804) - allow for numeric group in user:group notation (#822) * cmp - better messages when files differ at end of file (#766) * cp - cp -i will continue to next file if there is an error. (#827) * cut - correctly handle "start, no end" (n-) range in -b (#783) - handle -f consistently (#789) * du - properly handle illegal BLOCKSIZE env values (#784) - exit code 1 on error (#818) * ed - w commands prints byte count when ed is started without a filename (#760) - correctly escape literal $ in binary output (#762) - various internals improvements (#763) - an empty search reuses the previous search (#764) - add g command to grep a buffer (#765) - -s now also suppresses diagnostics when editing a file (#767) - allow repeated search with // and ?? (#768) - add v command for inverted searches (#770) - various internals improvements (#771) - various internals improvements (#772) - re-add support for /re/ address-mode (#773) - support ?re? address mode (#774) - various internals improvements (#775) - various internals improvements (#777) - various internals improvements (#780) - % takes OpenBSD meaning of "all addresses"; it can only be used alone (#782) - implement global substitute: g/search1/s/search2/replace/ allows search1 to filter the lines to process, then search2 determines the text to replace per line (#786) - implement repeat search for g// & v// (#787) - various internals improvements (#788) - make wq shortcut work again after previous fix changed it (#790) - implement ';' addressing mode (#792) - remove -d (debugging) switch since the debugging output isn't that helpful (#793) - support '^' addressing (#797) - various internals improvements (#808) - basic support for mark (K) command (#812) - implement reading output from a command (r !cmd) and writing to a command (w !cmd), and reject filenames that start with ! for f command. (#824) - various internals improvements (#829) - m command accepts address argument (#830) - various internals improvements (#831) - various internals improvements (#834) - disallow trailing '/' when setting filename (#845) - reject filename of '.' or '..' (#849) - always exit with 1 for failure (#863) - add undo (u) command (#869) - update current line in undo (#871) * expr - == is no longer accepted as a synonym for = since this is not a standard option (#751) - numbers can start with + (#836) - ignore -- if it's the first argument (fatal is it is the only argument) (#840) * file - -f works properly by checking the definedness of its argument instead of truthiness, and chomps the lines it reads. (#769) * fmt - use GNU's method for formatting so single words aren't broken up (#866) * fold - fix possbile infinite loop in -bs (#796) - improve usage message (no longer takes a parameter) (#835) * glob - various internals improvements (#848) - debug info goes to STDERR instead of STDOUT (#855) - silence some warnings by removing prototypes (#859) - various internals improvements (#862) - with ~someuser, if that user is not found, treat it as a non-match instead of an error (#867) * grep - be more careful with handling the TERM env var (#749) - various internals improvements (#756) - allow multiple -e or -f on the command line (#757) - -Fi shows original line, not line as all lowercase (#776) - -a (binary files) changed to act like the OpenBSD/GNU by printing the "line" that matched (#795) - add -Z to operate in zgrep mode (don't automatically decompress everything) (#799) - Remove -1 switch. Use -m 1 instead, for GNU compatibility (#809) - implement -A for context after a match (#810) - various internals improvements (#811) - add -I (capital i) switch to ignore binary files (#815) - make space after -e or -f optional (#816) - remove -p and -P for paragraph mode, which was a non-standard perl extension (#817) - make -R a synonym for -r (#820) - return no match exit code for an empty pattern file used with -f (#821) - various internals improvements (#826) * hangman - consistently handle eof when there is not a guess (#842) * hexdump - remove non-standard -u (unbuffered) option (#847) - add -b, -d, -o and -x format options (#850) - various internals improvements (#851) - don't die for directory argument; warn and move to next argument (#858) * id - exit 1 on failure (not die with 255) (#846) * install - allow mode to be 0 (make thing temporarily unavailable even when installed) (#837) - implement -b to preserve existing files (#839) - handle symbolic permissions correctly (#841) * kill - remove undocumented -L option, which was the same as -l (lowercase) (#778) - various internals improvements (#781) * ls - don't automatically opendir everything (#801) * mail - don't die for message id 0 (#785) - trim leading spaces from command input (#800) - use VISUAL for the path to vi, or look for vi in the PATH (#823) - various internals improvements (#825) - various internals improvements (#832) - add --version and improve usage message (#833) - -f usage forbids extra args (#870) * mkdir - default permissions are 0777 unless you specify them (#854) * od - various internals improvements (#852) - various internals improvements (#853) * par - change to using getopts, so now unrecognized options complain (#752) * patch - note that patch exists with 0 for success (#779) * pr - allow 0 to be a valid header (check for definedness, not truth) (#791) * rmdir - test that an argument is a directory before trying to remove it (better error message) (#803) * spell - various internals improvements (#838) * split - allow /0/ pattern split (check pattern is defined, not true) (#807) * tail - use File::Spec to construct paths portably (#856) - some fixups to make strict happy (#864) * tsort - raise error for an odd number of input tokens (#758) - various internals improvements (#759) - allow nodes to refer to themselves (has no dependency). This previously created a cycle error. (#761) * uniq - arguments are now exactly one input file and optionally one output file (#819) * units - allow -fFILE (no space before argument) (#844) * unshar - change to Getopt::Std (#860) * what - various internals improvements (#750) - handle -s and nulls properly (#753) - exit with 0 only if there are matches (#754) - various internals improvements (#755) - line prefix is a tab instead of eight spaces (#794) * wump - various internals improvements (#802)