Re: Minor bug in df

2010-02-12 Thread Luke Kendall
(A long time ago) Jim Meyering wrote: Luke Kendall lukekend...@optushome.com.au wrote: The column formatting of the plain df output is misaligned, making it hard to read. Same is true for -P option. For example: ... : /home/data/audio; df --version df (GNU coreutils) 5.96 Thanks for the

[cut command][wish] Abbr. for --output-delimiter

2010-02-12 Thread Aitor Roncal
Hello: I would much appreciate a simple improvemente in the cut command: add an abbreviation for the --output-delimiter option ( -o maybe?). Thanks a lot for listening. Cheers! ~~~ Aitor Roncal Euskomedia Fundazioa - INFORMATIKA Tel. (0034) 943 322 296

Re: [cut command][wish] Abbr. for --output-delimiter

2010-02-12 Thread Eric Blake
According to Aitor Roncal on 2/12/2010 2:27 AM: Hello: I would much appreciate a simple improvemente in the cut command: add an abbreviation for the --output-delimiter option ( -o maybe?). What's wrong with 'cut --ou=string'? You can use any unambiguous abbreviation of a long option. In

[PATCH] Solaris ACL handling

2010-02-12 Thread Ben Walton
Hi All, I'm building coreutils for OpenCSW (http://opencsw.org) and was seeing the test suite fail several tests with 'Operation not supported on tranport endpoint' messages. After digging around a bit, I found that errno was EOPNOTSUPP in several ACL handling routines and that wasn't covered.

Re: Minor bug in df

2010-02-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/02/10 08:40, Luke Kendall wrote: (A long time ago) Jim Meyering wrote: Luke Kendall lukekend...@optushome.com.au wrote: The column formatting of the plain df output is misaligned, making it hard to read. Same is true for -P option. For example: ... : /home/data/audio; df --version df

Re: [cut command][wish] Abbr. for --output-delimiter

2010-02-12 Thread Aitor Roncal
Hi: I wasn't aware of the unambiguous abbreviation thing. That should be enough. My mistake. Thanks a lot! Aitor. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: According to Aitor Roncal on 2/12/2010 2:27 AM: Hello: I would much appreciate a simple improvemente in the

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/02/10 00:05, Pádraig Brady wrote: I had been trying this which seems to handle both: grep -E {2,6}-.*[^.] [A-Z][a-z] *.c Searching man files allows us to take advantage of the extra formatting to catch all cases (even though there currently any extra found by this): grep -E '^\\fB\\-'

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Related to checking man pages I noticed this error: ~/git/coreutils/man$ make check-programs-vs-x GENcheck-programs-vs-x missing libstdbuf.so.x make: *** [check-programs-vs-x] Error 1 check-programs-vs-x is called with distcheck-hook so I'm unsure of exactly why this failure is not being

[dirname] fix documentation when using on a full directory path

2010-02-12 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
Hi, coreutils 6.10-6 (debian lenny x86 32bit) when we use dirname /full/directory/path/ we get /full/directory/, but documentation say: dirname - strip non-directory suffix from file name so either there is a need to update the documentation to say it is

Re: [dirname] fix documentation when using on a full directory path

2010-02-12 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: coreutils 6.10-6 (debian lenny x86 32bit) when we use dirname /full/directory/path/ we get /full/directory/, but documentation say: dirname - strip non-directory suffix from file name so either there is a

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Related to checking man pages I noticed this error: ~/git/coreutils/man$ make check-programs-vs-x GENcheck-programs-vs-x missing libstdbuf.so.x make: *** [check-programs-vs-x] Error 1 check-programs-vs-x is called with distcheck-hook so I'm unsure of exactly why

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I've added a syntax-check rule to grep the man pages for --options with descriptions with initial uppercase letters in the attached. Thanks! Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix inconsistent capitalization in --help output ... Looks fine. One minor nit. Rules that run a sub-make

Re: Feature Request kill and ps

2010-02-12 Thread Eric Blake
[please keep the list in the loop, and please don't top-post on technical lists] According to Jan Girke on 2/12/2010 10:30 AM: Hi Eric Unfortunately sort is no help at all ( r...@computer:/# ps -e | sort unless you do that monster, r...@computer:/# ps -eo %c %y %U %p|sort but I haven't

Re: Stty bug?

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Curry
Tom Lake writes: I believe -iexten may be the problem. In your tty1 test, was iexten enabled? Maybe a getty bug, it should be turning on iexten if it turns on iuclc. I was able to recreate the original problem. Reading Alan's response here I was surprised to see that adding iexten