From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> * NEWS (New feature): Mention it. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c90e02f..82ce53c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** New features + + split accepts a new --filter=CMD option. With it, split filters output + through CMD. CMD may use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to + the nominal output file name for each invocation of CMD. For example, to + split a file into 3 approximately equal parts, which are then compressed: + split -n3 --filter='xz > $FILE.xz' big + Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes. + That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.12 (2011-04-26) [stable] -- 1.7.5.134.g1c08b