Re: ls manpage incomplete
Richard Guy Briggs, Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:53:21 -0400: The standard for documentation has been man for longer than that... It should be complete. You are right of course, and GNU's insistence on stupid info format is terrible (yes, I hugely prefer manpages over info, even for massive manpages like bash; in ten years of my life with Linux, I have used bash info documentation twice at most), but give it up, this fight for common sense was lost. Just try to take it as a fact of our life ... there are volcanoes in Japan, wildfires in the Southern California, and GNU manpages suck. And don't try to argue against GNU Not being Unix, that sacred cow is very much part of our life as well. /flame Matěj P.S.: And as this is not an effort to ignite flamewar, just friendly reminder to Richard, I won't reply to anything in this thread. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
bug in cp -r command
Cp -r does not work if wild card entries are specified. Basically, it copies all files, and ignores the wildcard entries. cp -r /directory/you/want/to/copy/from/*.ext /new/destination copies all files to destination instead of only *.ext files. I think this is a serious bug and should be remedied immediately. Thanks. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: bug in cp -r command
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Sourav Chakraborty wrote: Cp -r does not work if wild card entries are specified. Basically, it copies all files, and ignores the wildcard entries. cp doesn't know about wildcards; they are a shell construct. Please see the FAQ at http://tinyurl.com/59ovg cp -r /directory/you/want/to/copy/from/*.ext /new/destination copies all files to destination instead of only *.ext files. I think this is a serious bug and should be remedied immediately. The -r flag isn't necessary here, assuming all *.ext filenames refer to actual files, not directories. Cheers, Phil ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
