Package: moreutils
Version: 0.14
Severity: normal
'vidir' prefaces every file & dir with a number. The man page
doesn't mention the numbers or what they do:
...Delete *items* to remove them from the directory, or edit
their names to rename them.
For example, if the user deletes the filename, but not the number,
'vidir' gets confused and tries to rename the file to a blank and
returns an error. So an "item" above means two things:
1) renaming: just the filename, not the number.
2) deletion: both the number and filename.
Also 'vidir' can't handle a blank line -- it's not enough to remove the
number and the filename, the linefeed has to be removed as well. That's
either a bug or a feature.
Suggested revision:
...Delete an entire line to remove a file from the directory, or edit
just its name to rename it.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages moreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
moreutils recommends no packages.
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