Jim Meyering wrote:
> > I do not believe it would be a significant amount of work:
>
> If you can do it with an insignificant amount of work, that'd be great.
> Have you just volunteered? ;-)
My first roofing contractor was discovered to have cut through
the earthquake straps holding the two ha
Bruce Korb wrote:
> > I like the verbose names.
> > Are there really three different types of syntax: %w, $w{} and ${}?
Oh! Thinko. I just noticed that I substituted '$' for '%' characters.
No. Snprintfv is a string formatting library that uses the normal conventions,
but is extensible in that
> No, more like the following: (warning, these are `made-up' format directives;
> it'd take some careful thought to come up with proper choices):
>
> ls --format="%M %I %U %G %B %D %f\n"
>
> Implementing something like that properly
> would involve a significant amount of work.
> If you're int
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, more like the following: (warning, these are `made-up' format directives;
>> it'd take some careful thought to come up with proper choices):
>>
>> ls --format="%M %I %U %G %B %D %f\n"
>>
>> Implementing something like that properly
>> would involve a s
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Hello!
Have you ever wondered why you have not full control over your installed
files.
-> you have a rpm based system an then there is the moment that your
favorite program
is not available as rpm package for your distribution! You are to lazy to
read all the document about generating rpm packages
Hello,
I found by trial-and-errors that 'ls' from coreutils returns a status
which is not zero in case of problems like no file matching a given
pattern. I think such cases should be documented in the man and info
pages, to clarify exactly which situations lead to such a non-zero
exit status.
I u
Chris Van Nuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Browsing through the TODO list for coreutils I found the
> request that a --total option be added to 'df' to summarize
> the total blocksize, Used, and Available. I've written a
> patch to do that, and I'd like your input as to it
