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I got a FAIL for file-type after doing ./configure; make My system is Mac OS X 10.2.6 Making check in ls make check-TESTS PASS: inode PASS: dangle out2 exp2 differ: char 21, line 3 3c3 < fifo --- > fifo| 5,7c5,7 < slink-dangle < slink-dir < slink-reg --- > slink-dangle@ > slink-dir@ > slink-reg@

Re: test -t FD vs. [FD]

Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul> With a single argument, test only tells you whether that arguments is > Paul> empty. You want "test -t 0" (or 1 or 2). > > $ man test >-t [FD] > file descriptor FD (stdout by default) is opened on a terminal > I.e. argument opti

df bug with multisession CDs

DF is only displaying the size of the last session written to the CD under Redhat Linux 9.0. -- Trenton D. Adams Web Programmer Analyst Athabasca University ext 6195 __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, pe

head man page be clearer

man head -c, --bytes=SIZE say -c SIZE, --bytes=SIZE print first SIZE bytes -n, --lines=NUMBER say -NUMBER, --lines=NUMBER print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10 as not all of us are in the in club. ___ Bu

test -t FD vs. [FD]

[remove emacs group when following up] >> Why does (shell-command "test -t&&tty") get so far to tell me 'not a >> tty'!? Paul> With a single argument, test only tells you whether that arguments is Paul> empty. You want "test -t 0" (or 1 or 2). $ man test -t [FD] file descri

ptx docs don't actually say what a permuted index is

The ptx docs don't actually say what a permuted index is, or better yet show one. You could say, with this input: you get this output: Not everybody knows already. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/

tsort docs: steep learning curve

Documentation critique, by Dan Jacobson. |`tsort': Topological sort |= | | `tsort' performs a topological sort on the given FILE, or standard |input if no input file is given or for a FILE of `-'. For more details |and some history, see *Note tsort background::. Synopsis

Re: weird make check failures

I get this even if I compile in src-dir. And the "./configure && make distclean" hack didn't help either. Any other ideas? Maybe my tree is just fubared, cheers. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bu

Re: mv checks that fail...

Here you go. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ mkdir d; cd d; touch x; ls -gG . /tmp/d total 0 -rw-r--r--10 Jun 18 12:55 x [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/d$ Cheers. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-

Re: mv checks that fail...

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you perhaps hacked ls.c so that it always prints the `author' >name? > > Nope, this is a pristine checkout from CVS. Please tell me what output this gives: mkdir d; cd d; touch x; ls -gG . I think we were talking about a failure of m

Re: the patch that got lost

This one will with most certanty fix the mv/cp failures that I had. It takes forever to run ./configure on GNU/Hurd! ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: weird make check failures

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get this even if I compile in src-dir. And the "./configure && make > distclean" hack didn't help either. Any other ideas? > > Maybe my tree is just fubared, cheers. If you touch Test.pm in the affected directory, those files will be regenerated.

Re: Fw: Redirection & wildcarding under VMS

Many thanks for the quick work over all utilities :-)). - Original Message - From: "Jim Meyering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bernard Giroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Paul Eggert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Redirection & wi

Re: mv checks that fail...

Have you perhaps hacked ls.c so that it always prints the `author' name? Nope, this is a pristine checkout from CVS. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

the patch that got lost

This one got lost: 2002-08-17 Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Fix author preservation code. --- fileutils-4.1.10.old/src/copy.c Fri Jun 21 14:07:40 2002 +++ fileutils-4.1.10/src/copy.c Sat Aug 17 20:42:40 2002 @@ -1517,11 +1517,17 @@ copy_internal

Re: weird make check failures

Thanks. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: mv checks that fail...

I forgot to say that this is also on GNU/Hurd. Sorry for that. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Would like a way to silent ln "warning: making a hard link to asymbolic link is not portable"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have found a linux-specific use for this in my boot scripts, and would > like to be able to see other errors from ln without cluttering up the > boot process with this one. How about if we just remove the warning instead? It annoys me too. I often use hard links to