PerlPowerTools-1.049 - BSD utilities written in pure Perl

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href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/891">#891</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">rm</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">various internals improvements (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/912">#912</a>, <a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/914">#914</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">rmdir</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">various internals improvements (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/911">#911</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">sort</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">the -o switch can accept 0 (zero) as a filename (check defined, not truth) (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/880">#880</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">sum</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">add missing sha224, SHA3 functions as well as JH, Whirlpool, Haval256, BLAKE, MD2 and MD4 (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/936">#936</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">tac</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">exit 1 on error (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/903">#903</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">tail</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">the INT signal now terminates the program, while the QUIT signal shows the files being watched (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/874">#874</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">touch</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">check -t argument for definedness, not truth (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/876">#876</a>)</span> </li> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">-r and -t are mutually exclusive and together will throw an error (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/888">#888</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">tsort</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">don't treat - as a special filename for stdin (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/905">#905</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">unexpand</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">can't have spaces between multiple tabletop specifics (fixes usage string) (<a href="https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools/issues/906">#906</a>)</span> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="group-header"><span class="change-entry">uniq</span> <ul> <li class=""><span class="change-entry">undo some line wrapping hyphenation in docs. 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