Re: Why not enhance sort to handle floating point numbers?

2008-11-08 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steve Wald wrote: It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g. -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them. Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal

Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format

2008-11-08 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered adding SELinux-related format directives to GNU find? I would likely accept such patches into find, subject to a GNU copyright assignment of course. More generally, a more flexible syntax for find's

Threaded versions of cp, mv, ls for high latency / parallel filesystems?

2008-11-08 Thread Andrew McGill
Greetings coreutils folks, There are a number of interesting filesystems (glusterfs, lustre? ... NFS) which could benefit from userspace utilities doing certain operatings in parallel. (I have a very slow glusterfs installation that makes me think that some things can be done better.) For

Re: Threaded versions of cp, mv, ls for high latency / parallel filesystems?

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Andrew McGill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings coreutils folks, There are a number of interesting filesystems (glusterfs, lustre? ... NFS) which could benefit from userspace utilities doing certain operatings in parallel. (I have a very slow glusterfs installation that makes me think that

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a bit about that french issue, it was already reported to translation team. Answer was that it could be caused by translation like report all bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I don't think so, I guess it is

Re: Threaded versions of cp, mv, ls for high latency / parallel filesystems?

2008-11-08 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about parallelizing it via xargs, e.g., $ echo a b c d e f g h | xargs -t -n4 --no-run-if-empty \ --max-procs=2 -- cp --target-directory=dest cp --target-directory=dest a b c d cp --target-directory=dest

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

2008-11-08 Thread HggdH
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:51 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I googled a bit about that french issue, it was already reported to translation team. Answer was that it could be caused by translation like report all bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of report

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

2008-11-08 Thread James Youngman
Perhaps something like the attached patch to the usage message might be worthwhile (though I think it is probably too wordy). James. From 54614d88bc91d0c188108b467fb518c7d3de7c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:55:50 + Subject: [PATCH]

Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image

2008-11-08 Thread Al Jorge
Greetings: I have downloaded the new Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image and it is not recognized by a system (CD) currently running Ubuntu 8.04. Why? -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com ___ Bug-coreutils

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image

2008-11-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Al Jorge on 11/8/2008 4:04 PM: Greetings: I have downloaded the new Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image and it is not recognized by a system (CD) currently running Ubuntu 8.04. Why? After recent Ubuntu releases there have been several people who have

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps something like the attached patch to the usage message might be worthwhile (though I think it is probably too wordy). Thank you. I agree. How about this? From 1ae69757c63e2d0d7e1103f7d17d7d256d625e55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman