Rocky Bernstein wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Rocky Bernstein wrote:
It's been a couple of months since I first sent this was sent without
nary
an ack. Comments?
Hi Rocky,
su is barely on life support in coreutils.
Jim Meyering wrote:
I see that Fedora still uses su from coreutils, too,
so this is a worthwhile change.
So does OpenSuSE.
As in coreutils.texi, -l and -p can be used together,
although it's not very clear what will happen:
@item -m
@itemx -p
@itemx --preserve-environment
...
Parts
Paul Ruane wrote:
If I have the following directory structure:
mkdir -p a/a1 a/a2
If I then remove these empty directories using the --parents option,
rmdir reports an error:
rmdir --parents a/a1 a/a2
rmdir: failed to remove directory `a': Directory not empty
Despite the error, the
On 02/14/2012 07:53 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
we'd have to defer removing a/ until the last argument,
and to know that we need to handle this unusual case, we'd have to
inspect each of the intervening arguments.
There's a better way. Put all the I can't remove a
parent directory diagnostics
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 02/14/2012 07:53 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
we'd have to defer removing a/ until the last argument,
and to know that we need to handle this unusual case, we'd have to
inspect each of the intervening arguments.
There's a better way. Put all the I can't remove a
parent
hello
I have a HP Compaq nc6000 laptop I tried to install Zorin OS 5.2 free
burn to DVD. The video image has horizontal stripes, and in some areas
of the screen shows checkered whites and blacks, although you can read
the command windows appear as if they were missing some horizontal
lines of
Apologies, I did not copy the mailing list on part of the discussion.
On 14 February 2012 20:48, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
I should have asked up front,
Have you considered the --ignore-fail-on-non-empty option?
Um, no! That's perfect. Not sure why I didn't see that before: either
my
Paul Ruane wrote:
Apologies, I did not copy the mailing list on part of the discussion.
On 14 February 2012 20:48, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
I should have asked up front,
Have you considered the --ignore-fail-on-non-empty option?
Um, no! That's perfect. Not sure why I didn't see
On 14 February 2012 22:06, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
I suggest you use find.
This does what you want, at least with GNU find:
find a -depth -type d -empty -delete
Wow, the wonders of find. I've set this up as a shell function 'rmd'.
Many thanks for your suggestions.
Attached should be a revised patch that addresses all of your suggestions.
Cheers,
rocky
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Rocky Bernstein wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
Rocky Bernstein wrote:
I have a package dating back to 2005. Example:
04/21/2005 07:41 AM23,552 basename.exe
04/21/2005 07:41 AM62,464 cat.exe
04/21/2005 07:41 AM83,968 chgrp.exe
04/21/2005 07:41 AM81,920 chmod.exe
04/21/2005 07:41 AM86,016 chown.exe
tag 10812 notabug
thanks
On 02/14/2012 07:36 PM, Terry Bowden wrote:
I have a package dating back to 2005. Example:
04/21/2005 07:41 AM23,552 basename.exe
Is there any later release?
Yes, coreutils 8.15 was released just this year.
Given the extensions on your file names, it
tags 10802 notabug
Paul Ruane wrote:
On 14 February 2012 22:06, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
I suggest you use find.
This does what you want, at least with GNU find:
find a -depth -type d -empty -delete
Wow, the wonders of find. I've set this up as a shell function 'rmd'.
Many
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