bug#28468: Bug in wc -l found

2017-09-15 Thread Ruediger Meier
On Friday 15 September 2017, Weidner, Robert (I/EE-31, extern) wrote: > Dear GNU Team, > > seems I found a bug in wc, have a look: > > [cid:image001.png@01D32E12.3F5A7C20] > > Despite of it, I really want to say a BIG Thank you for great > tool-set, especially tree, which I use for 20 years now!

bug#28468: Bug in wc -l found

2017-09-15 Thread Weidner, Robert (I/EE-31, extern)
Dear GNU Team, seems I found a bug in wc, have a look: [cid:image001.png@01D32E12.3F5A7C20] Despite of it, I really want to say a BIG Thank you for great tool-set, especially tree, which I use for 20 years now! THX Rob Mit freundlichen Gruessen Robert Weidner FAS Architektur / zFAS

bug#28468: Bug in wc -l found

2017-09-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 28468 notabug stop Hello Rob, On 2017-09-15 03:03 AM, Weidner, Robert (I/EE-31, extern) wrote: > seems I found a bug in wc, have a look: [[ the attach screen shot shows: $ wc -l monitore-serNr_all-run2.txt 16 while the attached file appears to have 17 lines. ]] This is not a bug,

bug#28461: erreurs

2017-09-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2017-09-14 11:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 2017-09-14 11:43 AM, Eric Mariaud wrote: >>> eric@Eric-Xub:~/Bureau$ expr 2 * 3 >>> expr: erreur de syntaxe > > Well, we could try to improve the error diagnostics. > > WDYT? Very good idea. Perhaps something like the attached? (not

bug#28461: erreurs

2017-09-15 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: ... > That's a good improvement! Indeed! > > I'd change: > > s/missing more parameters after/missing parameter after/ Or, perhaps use wording similar to what test does: ..._("missing argument after %s")

bug#28461: erreurs

2017-09-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 15/09/17 20:44, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > ... >> That's a good improvement! > > Indeed! > >> >> I'd change: >> >> s/missing more parameters after/missing parameter after/ > > Or, perhaps use wording similar to what

bug#28461: erreurs

2017-09-15 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > And finally - when it comes to shell pattern globbing - it could > do an extra check if the offending argument is an existing file > similar to latest 'find' [1]: > > $ touch a b c > $ ../find/find -name * >

bug#28461: erreurs

2017-09-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 14/09/17 23:41, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > On 2017-09-14 11:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >>> On 2017-09-14 11:43 AM, Eric Mariaud wrote: eric@Eric-Xub:~/Bureau$ expr 2 * 3 expr: erreur de syntaxe >> >> Well, we could try to improve the error diagnostics. >> >> WDYT? > > Very