bug#17961: od -c producing numbers greater than 255 ?

2014-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/06/2014 06:27 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! Intersting, thanks for your reply. For -c the man page reads printable character or backslash escape I don't really see any mention of octal fallback in there :) Personally, I would expect (and prefer) \x?? output for any

bug#17963: strange behavior of cp

2014-07-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 07/07/2014 01:10 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a situation in which I want to merge two file sturctures by copying one of the structures onto the other with the following command: cp -aulv arxivBtry1/host/* arxivBtry2/host/ This should, I believe, make hardlinks into