Re: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Philip Rowlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still interested to read what Paul considers to be the difficulties of such an implementation? Suppose you're randomizing an input file of 10 million lines. And suppose you want to approximate a truly random key by using a 128-bit random key for

Re: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents

2005-06-03 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:31:26PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Philip Rowlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still interested to read what Paul considers to be the difficulties of such an implementation? Suppose you're randomizing an input file of 10 million lines. And suppose you want

Re: od -t b?

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Janus
Paul Eggert wrote: Daniel Janus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question: is it just an overlooking, or is the lack of this feature deliberate? I think it'd be a reasonable feature to add, if someone took the time to compose a complete patch for it. (Documentation is often the hardest part.)

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2005-06-03 Thread eni
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Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1

2005-06-03 Thread Alpt
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:24:06AM +0100, James Youngman: ~ On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:55:55PM +0200, Alpt wrote: ~ ~ The second patch is rum. ~ You can directly read the readme here: ~ http://www.freaknet.org/alpt/src/utils/rum/ ~ ~ With the rum patch, rm will look at /etc/rm.conf and

Suggested enhancement to du command - show last modified date.

2005-06-03 Thread William Brendling
I use the du command to identify directories for potential archiving. Candidate directories are those that are taking a lot of space, and which are not currently being worked on. The du command conveniently identified the first. To find out the latter requires walking the directory tree, and

Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1

2005-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Alpt wrote: Recently two of my friends lost their /etc and /var, but they lived in *nix for 5 years. I think maybe people are doing too much general purpose work while logged in as the superuser. I have been doing this for quite a few years now and consider myself proficient. But just the

Re: Susu and Rum patch for coreutils-5.2.1

2005-06-03 Thread Alpt
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:48:50AM -0600, Bob Proulx: ~ Alpt wrote: ~ Ok, let's rephrase it: if you crashed with your car and you're still ~ alive then, even if you are experienced, you can still crash with ~ it. no? eheh ^_. ~ ~ Every so often I make a mistake. Everyone does. This is