bug#16862: Feature Request for rm

2014-02-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Minor feature request Suggest -q (for quiet) for rm command. No error code if file doesn't exist. rm -q file rather tham rm file 2 /dev/null my 2 cents

bug#16862: Feature Request for rm

2014-02-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Wow! I'm blind - thanks! On 2/23/2014 10:28 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: severity 16862 wishlist close 16862 thanks Hello Marc, Marc Perkel wrote: Minor feature request Suggest -q (for quiet) for rm command. No error code if file doesn't exist. rm -q file rather tham rm file 2 /dev/null The 'rm

Possible tail bug

2009-12-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Just noticed this having upgraded to Fedora 12. I use tail -F to follow a file that vanishes and is recreated once a minute. It works for some time but eventually tail quits and goes back to the command prompt. Just thought I'd let you know in case you changed something. tail: `info.log' has

chmod on symlink

2009-06-01 Thread Marc Perkel
I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete the symlink. Can it be done? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Feature Requests

2008-08-24 Thread Marc Perkel
I'd like to ask again (you liked the idea but I'm not seeing it implemented) that on the utilities head ad tail that the -c option be not only in bytes but also in k,m,g as in 10k 200m 2g I have another request. In the utility uniq I'd like to see the switches --min --max to specify a

Thoughts on cut

2008-04-10 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm not sure if this feature request would be disruptive or not but it would be handy. If I run cut -f 2,1 it would be nice if it put the fields out in the order specified. Put field 2 out, then field 1. Thoughts? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list

Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Marc Perkel
When using tail with the -c option it would be handy to be able to specify not just bytes but K, M, and G bytes Example: tail -c 5K should output the last 5K bytes. my 2 cents ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org