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According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/17/2008 10:07 PM:
Thank you very much for the clarification, it makes perfect sense to me
now - as I said I was surprised that I appeared to have found a bug.
I have now reread the
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:25 +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
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ntfs-3g correctly returns ENOTEMPTY but this information gets lost and
arrives as success to gnu rm.
This indeed looks to be a problem in Solaris.
Yup, I agree. Solaris rm(1) has the correct behaviour but using the GNU
rm
Eric Blake wrote:
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/17/2008 10:07 PM:
Thank you very much for the clarification, it makes perfect sense to me
now - as I said I was surprised that I appeared to have found a bug.
I have now reread the documentation and I still don't think it is
particularly
Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/17/2008 10:07 PM:
Thank you very much for the clarification, it makes perfect sense to me
now - as I said I was surprised that I appeared to have found a bug.
I have now reread the documentation
Michael Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question:
Did the options for the Unix sort command change?
Yes. Some time ago.
Why does:
% sort -5 myfile
no longer sort myfile by keying off of column 5?
That precise syntax never worked.
However, syntax like this used to be the norm:
Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/17/2008 10:07 PM:
Thank you very much for the clarification, it makes perfect sense to me
now - as I said I was surprised that I appeared to have found a bug.
I have now reread the documentation
Which website does the best job of presenting usage examples for the sort
command, for a non-CS major?
You can start with the examples in info coreutils sort.
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Jim,
You've taught me to fish, big time!
I've been using Unix/Linux systems for decades and was only familiar
with the man command for looking up commands.
This info coreutils help feature is very informative, on the sort
command and many others.
What else have I been in the dark
Michael Alston wrote:
This info coreutils help feature is very informative, on the sort
command and many others.
...
What else have I been in the dark about?
You might find the GNU standards manual interesting reading.
Hi,
In src/od.c around line 1820 it says this:
if (limit_bytes_to_format)
{
end_offset = n_bytes_to_skip + max_bytes_to_format;
if (end_offset n_bytes_to_skip)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _(skip-bytes + read-bytes is too large));
}
Since max_bytes_to_format cannot be
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
In src/od.c around line 1820 it says this:
if (limit_bytes_to_format)
{
end_offset = n_bytes_to_skip + max_bytes_to_format;
if (end_offset n_bytes_to_skip)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _(skip-bytes + read-bytes is too
https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?6612
Please let me know if you see any issues with this change; I'd like to see it
adopted for the next coreutils release.
--
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com
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According to Jim Meyering on 8/18/2008 10:25 AM:
This question comes up frequently. Is there some wording we can use to
make it more obvious that omitting POS2 implies end of line, while still
being brief enough for --help output?
...end it at
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