Re: proposed new program: getpwnam [Re: --format flag

Jim Meyering wrote: > Bruce Korb wrote: > > So, what do you think about adding POSIX library/sys calls as > > a collection of command line utilities? We already have "stat", > > but don't have "getpwnam". There are a few others. > I hesitate to add new tools that can be approximated with > o

dd should be able to work from the end of a file just as good as from the beginning

Ideas for dd: Add options for counting from the end of a file, instead of the only the beginning. Also, let's say a file has a disk error area in the middle of it, reading that area will derail whatever program we are using. We can use cat or whatever, to read up until the error, but what about

Re: add --skip to head and tail

Paul> These proposed options would be of limited utility, since you can Paul> already do that in another way. "tail --skip=5 -n 10" would be Paul> equivalent to "tail -n 15 | head -n 10", and "head --skip=5 -n 10" Paul> would be equivalent to "tail -n +6 | head -n 10". mainly I was attempting way

Re: nohup.out placement so inflexible

Sorry, I must resign from intending to rewrite parts of nohup.c. I must resume my role of mere suggester of TODO items. Added life problems have occupied the brain cells I intended to use. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu

Re: can't deal this kind of files, '-filename'

Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ls -- *file Alternatively: "ls ./*file". This works even with programs that don't recognize "--". paul ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils