bug#22030: chown permission denied

2015-11-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/27/2015 09:50 AM, Catalino Rivera wrote: > Been dealing with this problem over a month now and been set aside for a > while since I have to take of some other important stuff. > Now I need to fix it due to job requirements. > I successfully mounted NFS to a ubuntu server and access the

bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

2015-11-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 28/11/15 23:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/28/2015 09:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 11/28/2015 09:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: >>> On both the head and tail man pages, >>> can you kindly not use "K"? >>> >>>-c, --bytes=K >>> output the last K bytes; or use -c +K

bug#22041: head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO

2015-11-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Shouldn't head and tail's man pages mutually SEE ALSO?

bug#22041: head and tail's man pages should mutually SEE ALSO

2015-11-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/28/2015 08:54 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Shouldn't head and tail's man pages mutually SEE ALSO? Thanks. Good idea - the following patch does that. I'll apply soon. Have a nice day, Berny >From 79c5b8f452ad01382c8e1d3e495a65428ae59b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Voelker

bug#22045: expr substr returns with an error code 1 when the substring starts with 0

2015-11-28 Thread Matthias Klose
found with coreutils-8.23, expr substr returns with an error code when the substring consists of only '0' characters, and the match is started at position 1. $ expr substr 1234 3 4; echo $? 0012 0 $ expr substr 1234 1 2; echo $? 12 0 $ expr substr 1234 1 2; echo $? 00 1 $ expr substr

bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

2015-11-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 11/28/2015 06:16 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 28/11/15 23:02, Bernhard Voelker wrote: The archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/) start 2010, so does anyone remember why K would be less ambigous than N? The mailing list split around then: I remember having slight

bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

2015-11-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
On both the head and tail man pages, can you kindly not use "K"? -c, --bytes=K output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output bytes starting with the Kth of each file K bytes sounds like kilobytes. Yes if one reads carefully it doesn't. But instead if you

bug#22045: expr substr returns with an error code 1 when the substring starts with 0

2015-11-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 22045 notabug close 22045 stop On 28/11/15 20:47, Matthias Klose wrote: > found with coreutils-8.23, expr substr returns with an error code when the > substring consists of only '0' characters, and the match is started at > position 1. > > $ expr substr 1234 3 4; echo $? > 0012 > 0 > $

bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

2015-11-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/28/2015 09:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: > On both the head and tail man pages, > can you kindly not use "K"? > >-c, --bytes=K > output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output bytes starting > with the Kth of each file > > K bytes sounds like kilobytes.

bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

2015-11-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/28/2015 09:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/28/2015 09:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> On both the head and tail man pages, >> can you kindly not use "K"? >> >>-c, --bytes=K >> output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output bytes >> starting >>

bug#22045: expr substr returns with an error code 1 when the substring starts with 0

2015-11-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 22045 notabug close 22045 stop Hello, On 11/28/2015 03:47 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: found with coreutils-8.23, expr substr returns with an error code when the substring consists of only '0' characters, and the match is started at position 1. $ expr substr 1234 1 4; echo $? 1