Re: id bug

2006-12-11 Thread Ostap Kutsyy
These commands are launched just after the adding my current user 'ostap' to the 'root' 'cvs' groups. So I have noticed 2 unconjectured things: 1. If I add me (user 'ostap') to some groups, it is not very convenient to logout login every time. As far as I can see, this is a kernel restriction

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-11 Thread DI Oliver Maurhart
Hi *, Yes, it does, but this feature is pain ass to enter on a bash-shell: Absolutely. And this bothers me in many respects, not just with sort -t. Perhaps you should be directing your bug reports to the Bash maintainer. After all, in this particular context (and in the other contexts I'm

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2006-12-11 Thread newtonjunior
A very odd bug, when a call the comand: date --date=2006-10-15 this give me a invalid date. This happens only in that specific date 2006-10-15, very strange. Look below. cged057:~$ date --date=2004-02-27 Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 BRT 2004 cged057:~$ date --date=2006-10-15 date: invalid date

Re: Error on specific date

2006-12-11 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A very odd bug, when a call the comand: date --date=2006-10-15 this give me a invalid date. This happens only in that specific date 2006-10-15, very strange. Look below. I assume from your email address and BRT timezone that you're in the

Re: id bug

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Ostap Kutsyy wrote: These commands are launched just after the adding my current user 'ostap' to the 'root' 'cvs' groups. So I have noticed 2 unconjectured things: 1. If I add me (user 'ostap') to some groups, it is not very convenient to logout login every time. As far as I can see,

Re: Error on specific date

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Philip Rowlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't reproduce this. Here's what I get with the tzdata-2006p-1.fc5 installed on Fedora Core 5: $ export TZ=Brazil/East $ date --date=2006-10-15 Sun Oct 15 00:00:00 BRT 2006 I can reproduce the problem on Debian stable (with coreutils 6.7 date)

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2006-12-11 Thread Andreas Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A very odd bug, when a call the comand: date --date=2006-10-15 this give me a invalid date. This happens only in that specific date 2006-10-15, very strange. Look below. cged057:~$ date --date=2004-02-27 Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 BRT 2004 cged057:~$ date

What is the opposite of 'printf'?

2006-12-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(Sorry this isn't exactly the right list, but this feels like a problem coreutils should solve, and I don't see gmane carrying anything better.) I am looking for a way to convert binary data to a format that 'printf' will understand (and more importantly, from which 'something | sed

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to DI Oliver Maurhart on 12/11/2006 1:03 AM: No. Actually the $'\t' works! It's pretty cool. I'm into Linux for several years now, but everyday you get surprised by such small goodies. Didn't know of that one. Both bash and zsh support

Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthew Woehlke on 12/11/2006 5:46 PM: The objective is to be able to reproduce a binary file from an 'editor friendly' shell script. I know base64 could do this, except that base64 is not portable (even to pre-6.x GNU coreutils),

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-11 Thread DI Oliver Maurhart
Hi, Well, yes, maybe. To insert a tab on a console based on simultaneously pressing a combination of several keys on the keyboard ... gee, tab: bash-completion, alt-tab: whhoppp there it goes I'm in my second app on the desktop, ctrl-tab: w, I'm in yet another desktop ... Okay, just so

openat problems on decent linux systems

2006-12-11 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Please take a look at thread: http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2006-December/018341.html The problem is that coreutils uses own internal copies of openat() and fchmodat() even if glibc already provides these functions (starting from glibc 2.4). Simplest patch: diff

Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthew Woehlke wrote: I am looking for a way to convert binary data to a format that 'printf' will understand (and more importantly, from which 'something | sed 's/\\//g' | xargs printf' will produce the same output as the input). Am I missing such a utility, or might this be an

Re: openat problems on decent linux systems

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please take a look at thread: http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2006-December/018341.html The problem is that coreutils uses own internal copies of openat() and fchmodat() even if glibc already provides these functions

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Blake wrote: Ctrl-V is pretty much the standard default in UNIX terminals for quoting the next character typed, which means the sequence [ctrl-v] then [tab] is almost universally accepted, regardless of whether you use bash, ksh, ash, or even csh. With ctrl-v, it is the terminal doing

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
DI Oliver Maurhart wrote: The question is solely: does sort support it or not. And currently it simply doesn't. That's all. Several people have already posted examples showing that quoting tab for use with sort as a delimiter does work okay. Bob

Re: openat problems on decent linux systems

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the following patch instead? It seems a bit more straightforward. However, I don't fully understand the problem so I may well have gotten it wrong. 2006-12-11 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * m4/openat.m4 (gl_FUNC_OPENAT): Don't

Re: openat problems on decent linux systems

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That looks fine to me. OK, I installed it into gnulib. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils