Pádraig Brady wrote:
Joshua Bronson wrote:
I was looking for a command line utility to get the min and max from a file
(rather than the much less efficient sort | {head,tail} -1) and I couldn't
find one. Someone on linuxquestions.org directed me toward the Generic
Mapping Tools
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
I took a look at the problems you reported. The first one is fixed with
the first attached patch.
I have tested it under Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686.
Thank you. Applied with only minor formatting changes (i.e., I
moved to start of continued line).
tail -F works until
Joshua Bronson wrote:
What are your concerns?
Adding the kitchen sink to `sort`.
Though if we were to add this functionality to coreutils,
sort seems like the right place. I've often used
sort | tail, but only for small data sets where the
overhead is negligible. I'm leaning towards this
Hi Jim,
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
I don't (yet?) see why a tree would be the preferred data structure.
...
Because inotify doesn't add recursive watchers. For example, you want
to follow by name `/var/foo/bar', and `/var/foo' doesn't exist yet. To
catch the event for the `bar'
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
Hi Jim,
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
I don't (yet?) see why a tree would be the preferred data structure.
...
Because inotify doesn't add recursive watchers. For example, you want
to follow by name `/var/foo/bar', and `/var/foo' doesn't exist yet. To
I've just updated coreutils gnulib submodule to the latest.
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Hi Jim,
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes:
I'm not convinced that adding a lot of new code just to make tail -f
handle a far-fetched case like that is worthwhile. But that's just
my opinion, and if someone can present a use-case that makes it seem
the additional code would be put to
2009/7/3 Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
I'm leaning towards this being
useful given how much faster it would be for large datasets.
Glad to hear others might find this useful!
If coreutils has an issue tracker (didn't see one linked off
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/), I'd love to
