On 09/11/2014 02:31 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] doc: adjust reference to info nodes in man pages
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Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: reference online info pages directly from man pages
The result of both patches looks almost good:
--- a/share/man/man1/basename.1
+++
On 09/11/2014 09:54 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
+or available locally via: info '(coreutils) basename invocation'
^___^
I think we need the \aq instead of ' here, don't we?
Good catch!
Interestingly it renders as a standard ' quote
With coreutils 8.23 under Debian/unstable:
ypig% : x
ypig% cat x x
cat: x: input file is output file
ypig% POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 cat x x
cat: x: input file is output file
while there's no reason to return an error in this case: the file
should just remain empty. Using the same file for input and
On 09/11/2014 02:00 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
With coreutils 8.23 under Debian/unstable:
ypig% : x
ypig% cat x x
cat: x: input file is output file
ypig% POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 cat x x
cat: x: input file is output file
while there's no reason to return an error in this case: the file
On 09/11/2014 07:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
while there's no reason to return an error in this case: the file
should just remain empty.
Testing for an empty file is enough of an additional special case over
the existing check for same files that I don't think it is worth it.
BTW, when x
On 2014-09-11 14:20:06 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 09/11/2014 02:00 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
This may not seem really useful here, but this can potentially break
scripts with things like:
cat $foo $bar
where $foo may be the same file as $bar only if it is empty.
I'm
With my Fedora version, there is an error message (input file is output
file)
cat x x
cat: x: input file is output file
Regards
Leslie
From: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
To: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net; 18...@debbugs.gnu.org
Sent:
Eric Blake wrote:
Testing for an empty file is enough of an additional special case over
the existing check for same files that I don't think it is worth it.
It's a really cheap check, as a system call is needed only when the
input and output files are the same, and even then it's only an
