>>As this is not a bug I'll be bold and close the bug report.
>
> Quite so. It'd be nice if there as some way to prevent the system from
> assigning a
> bug number. I.e., some kind of code you could put in your email to say "This
> is not
> a bug; it is just meta".
I think coreut...@gnu.org
On 2025-07-27 18:10, Stan Marsh wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why is shred obsolete?
Oh, that's a long story. Some of it is covered in the manual here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred-invocation.html
but that's a bit out of date. Here's something that's more up-t
>On 2025-07-27 17:26, Stan Marsh wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, I note that you (Paul) say that "pr" is "obsolete".
>> This surprises me, since I still use it every day.
>I'm not proposing that we remove pr, just that it's not high priority.
And I wasn't suggesting that you (or anyone) was p
On 2025-07-27 17:26, Stan Marsh wrote:
Just out of curiosity, I note that you (Paul) say that "pr" is "obsolete".
This surprises me, since I still use it every day.
I'm not proposing that we remove pr, just that it's not high priority.
As this is not a bug I'll be bold and close the bug repo
Just out of curiosity, I note that you (Paul) say that "pr" is "obsolete".
This surprises me, since I still use it every day. I find that, like a lot
of the old style Unix utilities, it does what it says it does and that's
good enough for me.
In other words, you might then say the same thing (th
