bug#39092: Bug in coreutils "du"? - ignores files when both a file and a hard link is given

2020-01-11 Thread Alex
vmlinuz-5.3.5-gentoo-x86_64 19:57:28 [0] ~ > Cheers, Alex.

bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message

2019-07-28 Thread Alex Mantel
i couldn't use move:     $ mv thing/ ../things     mv: cannot move 'thing' to '../things/things': Directory not empty An i can not move it. i do not understand why. I have to google and find at stackoverflow:     Though its man page doesn't document it, mv will refuse to rename a     directory

bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process

2016-11-25 Thread Alex Ryan
OENT (No such file or directory) write(2, ": Bad file descriptor", 21: Bad file descriptor) = 21 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 close(1)= 0 close(2)= 0 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > I see no real evidence that this is a bug in 'shuf'. It looks like a bug > in the program that calls 'shuf'. You can verify this by using 'strace > shuf' instead of plain 'shuf'. > -- Alex Ryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexryan

bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process

2016-11-25 Thread Alex Ryan
That worked beautifully. Great explanation. Much appreciated. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > On 25/11/16 23:59, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > On 25/11/16 22:24, Alex Ryan wrote: > >> I am not certain about this but I *think* thi

bug#25029: shuf generates “Bad file descriptor” error on nfs but only when run as a background process

2016-11-25 Thread Alex Ryan
I am not certain about this but I *think* this might be a bug in shuf. full description of how to reproduce is here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40730239/shuf-generates-bad-file-descriptor-error-on-nfs-but-only-when-run-as-a-backgro -- Alex Ryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexryan

bug#21996: Feature request regarding ls/$LS_COLORS

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Richert
underlined /without/ all .txt files being underlined. This would be convenient for coloring files which are and aren't version tracked, for instance. Cheers, Alex Richert

bug#17035: [PATCH] chmod -c -R produces errors with special permissions

2014-03-18 Thread Dylan Alex Simon
chmod sometimes tries to stat files in the wrong directory when reporting changes: mkdir -p a/b chmod -R g+s a/b # requires some special permission bit set first chmod -c -R g+w a chmod: getting new attributes of 'b': No such file or directory A fix is attached. From

bug#6366: join can't join on numeric fields

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Shinn
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bug#6366: join can't join on numeric fields

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Shinn
2010/6/8 Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com: On 07/06/10 06:19, Alex Shinn wrote: Ideally join should be able to handle files sorted in any order that sort provides, but as a bare minimum it should at least be able to join files sorted on numeric fields. Well if there were no aliases

bug#6366: join can't join on numeric fields

2010-06-07 Thread Alex Shinn
Hi, Ideally join should be able to handle files sorted in any order that sort provides, but as a bare minimum it should at least be able to join files sorted on numeric fields. The attached simple patch provides -n, --numeric-sort options to this effect. -- Alex --- src/join.c~ 2010-04-21 04

Make check fails at one-file-system

2007-01-07 Thread Alex van Hout
The output generated by rm is: rm: skipping `a/b', since it's on a different device: Is a directory Sysspecs: Kernel 2.6.18.2 gcc 4.1.1 glibc: 2.5 Regards, Alex ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

verbose mode of RM

2006-06-18 Thread Alex Lanstein
version 5.2.1 of the GNU core utilities, including the standard programs for text and file manipulation. Regards, Alex Lanstein ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re[2]: DF (coreutils) - bug??

2006-05-28 Thread Alex
PE Alex aka Parasite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem seems to be related to well-known 137Gb LBA limitation. PE Most likely it's not a bug in df, then, and is instead a bug in the PE underyling operating system or file system. You can check this by PE invoking strace on df, and seeing

DF (coreutils) - bug??

2006-05-24 Thread Alex aka Parasite
guide me what to do for the fix...I've no idea for now. :( Sincerely, Alex PS: SlackWare 10.2(k:2.4.32), CoreUtils 5.96, NEC ExpressServer 5800/55Wa H/W + Seagate IDE HDD 250Gb (1 partition) as /dev/hdc1 mounted to /mnt/250gb/ ___ Bug-coreutils

Re: multi-character tab

2005-10-27 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
to be otherwise. No gnu problem. Using 'echo -ne' is probably the *worst* of the alternatives. It is about as non-portable as it can get. I am cringing just looking at it. heh... sorry 'bout that as well :) cheers alex ___ Bug-coreutils mailing

Re: multi-character tab

2005-10-26 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
the scheme creates the tab first and then uses it in the sort with a variable such as sort -t $TAB. Ack. I'll stick to TAB=$(echo -ne \\t) then. Thanks anyway for answering. cheers alex ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1

2005-01-24 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
UTC 2005 Y: Sat Mar 19 13:00:00 UTC 2005 Z: Sun Mar 20 01:00:00 UTC 2005 regards, alex ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Uppercase string: broken tr?

2003-08-25 Thread Alex J. Dam
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:16:28 -0600, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Haible wrote: Alex J. Dam wrote: $ echo 'AB' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] ab (the last character is an uppercase cedilla) I expecte its output to be: ab What does 'locale' say in this case? $ locale LANG