MONWHEA JENG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think there is a bug in expr. When I type
expr 2 * 3, I get expr: syntax error. The man page for expr
leads me to think that I should get 6.
Thanks, but that's not a bug.
Your shell is expanding the `*' to a list of all (or most)
of the files in
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
gregory mott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
can you point me to an appropriate RTFM that ideally would layout what
encodings are used by what locales, or how to tell what encoding you
have/need, etc usw?
Sorry, no; this stuff tends to be
gregory mott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when i pass textual input to sort, how does sort come to decide or infer
the encoding?
From the locale. It looks at the LC_ALL environment variable; if that
isn't set it looks at LC_CTYPE; if that isn't set it looks at LANG;
otherwise the default locale
Attached is a patch which adds support for a directory-first sort mode
for ls. This mode can be used in two ways:
-e/--dirsfirst [--sort=method]: Sorts directories first, then by the
specified method (by name, by default)
--sort=dirsfirst: Sorts directories first, then by name
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