I saw that 4.1.9 is from alpha.gnu.org; is Red Hat just too bleeding edge again here..?
Could you try the latest version of GNU coreutils [1] (it is a merge of textutils, sh-utils and fileutils) and see if the behaviour you are seeing exists there? [1]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
