Re: Would like a way to silent ln warning: making a hard link to asymbolic link is not portable

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found a linux-specific use for this in my boot scripts, and would like to be able to see other errors from ln without cluttering up the boot process with this one. How about if we just remove the warning instead? It annoys me too. I often use hard links to

Re: mv checks that fail...

I forgot to say that this is also on GNU/Hurd. Sorry for that. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: weird make check failures

Thanks. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

the patch that got lost

This one got lost: 2002-08-17 Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Fix author preservation code. --- fileutils-4.1.10.old/src/copy.c Fri Jun 21 14:07:40 2002 +++ fileutils-4.1.10/src/copy.c Sat Aug 17 20:42:40 2002 @@ -1517,11 +1517,17 @@ copy_internal

Re: mv checks that fail...

Have you perhaps hacked ls.c so that it always prints the `author' name? Nope, this is a pristine checkout from CVS. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

tsort docs: steep learning curve

Documentation critique, by Dan Jacobson. |`tsort': Topological sort |= | | `tsort' performs a topological sort on the given FILE, or standard |input if no input file is given or for a FILE of `-'. For more details |and some history, see *Note tsort background::.

ptx docs don't actually say what a permuted index is

The ptx docs don't actually say what a permuted index is, or better yet show one. You could say, with this input: you get this output: Not everybody knows already. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

test -t FD vs. [FD]

[remove emacs group when following up] Why does (shell-command test -ttty) get so far to tell me 'not a tty'!? Paul With a single argument, test only tells you whether that arguments is Paul empty. You want test -t 0 (or 1 or 2). $ man test -t [FD] file descriptor FD

head man page be clearer

man head -c, --bytes=SIZE say -c SIZE, --bytes=SIZE print first SIZE bytes -n, --lines=NUMBER say -NUMBER, --lines=NUMBER print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10 as not all of us are in the in club. ___

df bug with multisession CDs

DF is only displaying the size of the last session written to the CD under Redhat Linux 9.0. -- Trenton D. Adams Web Programmer Analyst Athabasca University ext 6195 __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential,

Re: test -t FD vs. [FD]

Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul With a single argument, test only tells you whether that arguments is Paul empty. You want test -t 0 (or 1 or 2). $ man test -t [FD] file descriptor FD (stdout by default) is opened on a terminal I.e. argument optional Making