random errors from "rm"

2005-02-24 Thread Gee M Wong
I updated to the setup 2.457.2.2 from 2.427 and started getting random errors from "rm". For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo 123 > aaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 Gee None 5 Feb 24 20:20 aaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ rm aaa rm: cannot remove `aaa': No suc

Re: date --help sends one digging RFCs

2005-02-24 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote: >man date and date --help have got to be kidding saying things like > -R, --rfc-2822 > output RFC-2822 compliant date string >whereupon we have to go looking up what RFC-2822 compliant date >strings look like. Make sure to show what they

date --help sends one digging RFCs

2005-02-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
man date and date --help have got to be kidding saying things like -R, --rfc-2822 output RFC-2822 compliant date string whereupon we have to go looking up what RFC-2822 compliant date strings look like. Make sure to show what they look like right there. _

Re: Replacements for regular shell builtins

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 2/23/2005 12:36 PM: >>On the bug-bash list, Chet Ramey pointed out to me that a POSIX shell is >>not required to implement those 17 utilities as built-ins; it only >>requires that the POSIX-compliant version those 17 utiliti