bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates in an EXAMPLE section in the man page. Good examples. I like the idea. One tweak:

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: James Youngman wrote: One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in the example. Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval on the day before the spring DST transition. hmm, shouldn't the tomorrow handling be fixed then? --

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: James Youngman wrote: One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in the example. Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval on the day before the spring DST transition. hmm, shouldn't the tomorrow

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: James Youngman wrote: One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in the example. Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval on the day before the spring DST transition. hmm,

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/03/11 01:52, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: It seems there's room for improvement. Absolutely. All that we need is someone to volunteer to specify exactly how to improve it, and to write the documentation and code. Unfortunately, this won't be trivial.

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: James Youngman wrote: One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in the example. Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval on the day before the spring

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: James Youngman wrote: One tweak: use date -d 12:00 +1 day instead of date -d tomorrow in the example. Good idea. That makes it immune to failure in a one hour interval on the

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: ... We can't change the fact that the spring DST transition introduces a one-hour hole containing invalid times. Whenever we tell date to use a time in such a hole, date must diagnose it as invalid. `date` is still a tool, so I feel it should reflect daily life ...

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: ... We can't change the fact that the spring DST transition introduces a one-hour hole containing invalid times. Whenever we tell date to use a time in such a hole, date must diagnose it as invalid. `date` is still a tool, so I feel it should

bug#8782: date command

2011-06-03 Thread Ruediger Meier
On Friday 03 June 2011, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: so in the night where the DST transition takes place, imagine you get up to go to the toilet because you drank to much coffee the evening before ... right in the hour where DST transition happens: isn't there a `date`? Or the other way round:

bug#8796: I need help piping csplit

2011-06-03 Thread Julio Cesar Gonzalez Torres
Hi I have an issue, I'm trying to split several files into two the first one is the head of file and the next one has to start with some title, but csplit don't allowe me to piping, this is how i'm doing $ find ./ -name '*out' | xargs csplit '/All Frequencies/' '/Statistical/' I have to now all

bug#8796: I need help piping csplit

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
tag 8796 notabug close 8796 thanks On 06/03/2011 01:46 PM, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Torres wrote: Hi I have an issue, I'm trying to split several files into two the first one is the head of file and the next one has to start with some title, but csplit don't allowe me to piping, this is how i'm

bug#8796: I need help piping csplit

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/03/2011 03:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote: But csplit is documented as requiring a single file name, followed by multiple patterns. What you WANT to do is: find . -name '*out' | \ xargs -I{} csplit {} '/All Frequencies/' '/Statistical'/ Or, ditch xargs altogether, and do it all through