Davis Houlton writes:-
I recently had to write a shuffle utility for a personal project and
was wondering if it would make a canidate for the coreutils
suite. It seems like the kind of utility the toolbox could use
(maybe under section 3. Output of entire files).
This behaviour was proposed
Dear friends,
I have encountered a problem using the command ln -sf to replace a symlink
to a directory by a symlink to a different directory.
Working in a heterogenous environment with GNU/Linux and HP-UX workstations
I found a different behaviour in this command's handling on the two
operating
Peter Kratzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have encountered a problem using the command ln -sf to replace a symlink
to a directory by a symlink to a different directory.
`ln -nsf' should do what you want.
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Peter Kratzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Contrary to the Unix behaviour (e.g. HP-UX) using this command on a
GNU/Linux system does not replace the link, but creates a new link in the
originally referenced directory.
Actually, HP-UX is the odd man out here. GNU ln is compatible
with Solaris
Hi. I think I found a bug in expr (and I haven't checked your bug
tracker and therefore apologize in advance if it's already been
reported/fixed). The bug: in expr, the product function appears to be
broken. Example:
/expr 5 * 2
expr: syntax error
...the problem only occurs with product.
Peter Kratzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Contrary to the Unix behaviour (e.g. HP-UX) using this command on a
GNU/Linux system does not replace the link, but creates a new link in the
originally referenced directory.
This has appeared as a portability problem a number of times in the
past. If
Bob Gill wrote:
Hi. I think I found a bug in expr (and I haven't checked your bug
tracker and therefore apologize in advance if it's already been
reported/fixed). The bug: in expr, the product function appears to be
broken. Example:
/expr 5 * 2
expr: syntax error
Thanks for reporting
