bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for ls and du

2011-11-09 Thread abdallah clark
Dear Paul, I hope that you and your family are well. I'm doing fine and feeling like I'm making better progress on a few levels lately. Also, I found a set of simple examples for the tee command in a very old book that were quite useful. I was reading it for shell programming and it's index

bug#9995: problem about sort -u -k

2011-11-09 Thread 夏凯
thanks for you reply. if i want to use the entire line as a key, and sort by the third field, whether should i use sort -u -k3 -k1 -k2 a to do that? On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 03:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 11/08/2011 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: 22:41:39#tp#~ /usr/local/bin/sort -u

bug#9995: problem about sort -u -k

2011-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
[Let's keep the list in the loop] On 11/08/2011 07:58 PM, 夏凯 wrote: thanks for you reply. if i want to get my result, whether should i use sort -u -k3 -k1 -k2 a to do that? I'm still not quite sure what result you want. sort -u -k3 -k1 -k2 a says to sort with three keys - from field 3 to

bug#10003: DF command

2011-11-09 Thread hs4
Hi I have a server some 3 years old acting as a backup for my two pc's has worked well. Yesterday ran out of disk space and used the gui option to delete files. However trash would not clear under gui so used command line which worked a treat. When i look at the gui in Trash it shows disk size

bug#10003: DF command

2011-11-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/09/2011 09:01 AM, h...@btconnect.com wrote: Hi I have a server some 3 years old acting as a backup for my two pc's has worked well. Yesterday ran out of disk space and used the gui option to delete files. However trash would not clear under gui so used command line which worked a

bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for ls and du

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/09/11 03:37, abdallah clark wrote: I was wondering if you received my very detailed account Yes, I got it, and I'm afraid that it was long enough and required enough thinking that it got put into my TO-DO list, which is a very bad place to be (I have hundreds of items in it). What I

bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for ls

2011-11-09 Thread Alan Curry
abdallah clark writes: I was wondering if you received my very detailed account of the issues I found with the ls -l --block-size=3DSIZE command. It's been about a week since I sent it, so I wasn't sure what was happening. I looked over that message and prepared a reply explaining the things

bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for ls and du

2011-11-09 Thread abdallah clark
Dear Paul, Thank you for the prompt response. In terms of being able to follow up with GIT DIFF, you need to remember that I am a newbie. I have no idea even what that it, let alone being able to reformat anything with it. I did a search on Yahoo and got over 8 and a half million hits on that

bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for ls and du

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/09/11 18:08, abdallah clark wrote: In terms of being able to follow up with GIT DIFF, you need to remember that I am a newbie. Ah, sorry, in that case, how about if you simply take the output of the command ls --help, edit it to improve it, and send us your fixes. Thus, you can use the

bug#9995: problem about sort -u -k

2011-11-09 Thread Eric Blake
[top-posting on technical lists is generally frowned on] [re-adding the list - it's always wiser to keep the list in the loop] On 11/09/2011 07:25 PM, 夏凯 wrote: actually, i just want the result of sort -sk3 a|uniq, we can't just use -u to instead of uniq? Nope, and I already explained why and