Problem

2006-11-06 Thread Gorka Bikuña
Why happens this?? I want to install Cinelerra, and I have this problem. I have Ubuntu 5.10. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/cinelerra-2.1$ make make -f build/Makefile.cinelerra make[1]: Entering directory `/home/o2q/Desktop/cinelerra-2.1' g++ -o i686/soundtest i686/soundtest.o -lm make[1]: g++:

Re: df improvements

2006-11-06 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roberto Piola wrote: I was trying to use df in scripts. Since LVM introduces very long device names, the column with usage% was floating, so, I modified a little the df utility, by adding the -q switch, that forces a very small output, without header and with just two

Re: [patch #2565] added option to sort: sort human readable file sizes

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Hauke Brandes wrote: Follow-up Comment #1, patch #2565 (project coreutils): This is a really useful feature IMHO. Actually, I made a similar patch myself and was just checking whether it had already been done. As it is just a small change and no collisions with other options seem to exist, I

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: '-N _options_, --numeric-sort=_options_' The other sort options can be attached to -k; how would this work here? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this comment. What would be attached to -k, and how? 'a': convert numbers with

Re: du feature request

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Logan Hansen wrote: 'sort'ing by name isn't a big deal. 'sort'ing by size, however doesn't work well do to du's rounding of sizes: du -m and compare a file that's 1k vs 900k. Further, du -h is quite nice, however, 'sort' can't do *anything* with the results. Rather than having to write a program

Re: Problem

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Gorka Bikuña wrote: Why happens this?? I want to install Cinelerra, and I have this problem. I have Ubuntu 5.10. You have addressed your question to the bug-coreutils mailing list. The GNU coreutils are the basic text, file and shell utilities of the GNU system. However you do not seem to be

Re: df improvements

2006-11-06 Thread Roberto Piola
Philip Rowlands wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roberto Piola wrote: I was trying to use df in scripts. Since LVM introduces very long device names, the column with usage% was floating, so, I modified a little the df utility, by adding the -q switch, that forces a very small output, without

Re: df improvements

2006-11-06 Thread Philip Rowlands
[ dropping [EMAIL PROTECTED] due to bounced mail ] On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roberto Piola wrote: Philip Rowlands wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roberto Piola wrote: I was trying to use df in scripts. Since LVM introduces very long device names, the column with usage% was floating, so, I

Re: df improvements

2006-11-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Roberto Piola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I experimented a little with it, but I failed to find a format suitable for my needs... what I needed was something simple to slice with cut, and even with -P I got [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -P Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: '-N _options_, --numeric-sort=_options_' The other sort options can be attached to -k; how would this work here? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this comment. What would be attached to

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: '-N _options_, --numeric-sort=_options_' The other sort options can be attached to -k; how would this work here? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: '-N _options_, --numeric-sort=_options_' The other sort options can be attached to -k; how would this work here? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean

du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
when encountering dirs missing the executable bit, du used to spit out an error but continue on its way ... with the new version though, the error forces premature failure with an helpful message :( for example, this dir structure as a non-root user: rm -rf foo mkdir -p foo/{a,b,c} touch

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 16:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: for example, this dir structure as a non-root user: rm -rf foo mkdir -p foo/{a,b,c} touch foo/a/asdf and `chmod a-x b` of course ... pgpPm6h0Au7z0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since it seems we've mostly shot down the -N idea in favor of explicit options Not at all. I'd rather not chew up a lot of option letters for this problem, as we're running short of option letters. So having an -N option (with subletters) is

Re: RFC: add'l 'sort -n' options

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since it seems we've mostly shot down the -N idea in favor of explicit options Not at all. I'd rather not chew up a lot of option letters for this problem, as we're running short of option letters. So having an -N option (with