Daniel Kersten wrote: > Hi, > > There appears to be a bug in coreutils. The --inverse flag appears to > be missing or broken from most utils.
Hi Daniel, I see you're on the drink again. > Example: > > $ ps --inverse > -- ERROR: Unknown gnu long option. not a coreutil > $ ls --inverse > ls: unrecognized option `--inverse' Note the globbing is done by the shell before passing to ls. Note find has internal globbing: find -maxdepth 1 ! -name "whatever" -ls > $ rm --inverse foo > rm: unrecognized option `--inverse' Again find is probably more appropriate here? find ... | xargs rm > $ echo --inverse "hello" > --inverse hello That one makes sense. $ echo --inverse "hello" oןןǝɥ We can code that one together in the pub. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
