Re: [PATCH] base64: remove some unused/redundant getopt code

2008-05-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed these when I was poking around in base64 recently. Looks like they're vestigial. Good catch. Thank you. Applied. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: Bug#479544: dircolors: please eliminate duplicates before writing variable

2008-05-06 Thread Jim Meyering
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.05.05.1829 +0100]: If no one volunteers to do this soon I'll put it on the TODO list. FWIW, this is a zsh-style way of dealing with it. It's not exactly rocket science, I just use an associative array

Re: Bug#479544: dircolors: please eliminate duplicates before writing variable

2008-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.05.05.1829 +0100]: If no one volunteers to do this soon I'll put it on the TODO list. FWIW, this is a zsh-style way of dealing with it. It's not exactly rocket science, I just use an associative array to uniquify:

Re: BugReport about ln command worked in NTFS

2008-05-06 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 2 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I use ln command to create a hard link in NTFS file system. If I delete one of the file, and use ls -l to list the files the link counter still the same. Either ln is not working, or the underlying kernel is not responding correctly to the

FYI: test-related changes

2008-05-06 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've been factoring and cleaning up tests, moving from the mk-script-based framework to the Coreutils.pm-based ones. One interesting side effect is that this is removing *thousands* of files from the distribution tarball. On the other hand, each of the converted tests require Perl, but

horrible utf-8 performace in wc

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381873 Forwarding this because it is a GNU issue, not specifically a Novell one. I reproduced this myself with the latest coreutils from git (BTW: You might want to repack that repo, counting objects during the clone was rather slow in the initial

equalize permissions with chmod?

2008-05-06 Thread Martin Bernreuther
Hello, is there an easy way (without writing a bash script) to copy e.g. the group permissions of a file (or directory) to the other permissions (maybe even recursively for a whole directory) with chmod? E.g. a file with -rwxr-x--- should be changed to -rwxr-xr-x and r- should be changed

Re: equalize permissions with chmod?

2008-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Martin Bernreuther on 5/6/2008 4:22 PM: | E.g. a file with -rwxr-x--- should be changed to -rwxr-xr-x | and r- should be changed to r--r-- chmod o=g | | I didn't find anything in the chmod man pages: It's there, but

Re: Bash vs. sh

2008-05-06 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: I'm not quite sure what is best to do here. It seems like the simplest wrapper might be this untested script (short enough to possibly be worth distributing without copyright notice, since adding the notice would double its size): #!/bin/sh if test