bug#22064: expr: expr string : '.*' returns the number of matched bytes not characters

2015-11-30 Thread Stephane Chazelas
Hello, that's another multibyte issue, it may be known already but I can't see it being referenced on debbugs.gnu.org. $ locale charmap UTF-8 $ expr é : . 2 $ expr é That is, characters are correctly matched, but a number of bytes instead of characters is returned. Same problem with $ expr

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

2015-11-30 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well. > > The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also > used in the sed manual. It's a little odd but it sort

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

2015-11-30 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/11/15 23:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> I remember having slight reservations about K too. >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html

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

2015-11-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/11/15 23:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> I remember having slight reservations about K too. >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html >> Nothing much better comes to mind. > > Thanks. > In that discussion, also

bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed

2015-11-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/11/15 22:44, Assaf Gordon wrote: > tag 22057 notabug > close 22057 > stop > > Hello Federico, > > On 11/29/2015 04:33 PM, Saint Michael wrote: >> I suggest that we add a new flag to Sort, to skip certain number of lines >> from the sorting and copy them verbatim to the output, >> > >

bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed

2015-11-30 Thread Saint Michael
I think that we should go ahead and include the option, since many people find it very useful and sort of obvious. It makes no difference that the same effect can be achieved with "sed -u 1q" and sort, since this workaround it is far common common knowledge. This issue will keep resurfacing for

bug#22057: Sort missing feature proposed

2015-11-30 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/30/2015 06:46 PM, Saint Michael wrote: > why don't we just go ahead and do it? not everything which can be done makes sense to do, and even less if the functionality is already there. Comparison: someone is always going to his favourite Italian restaurant for its tasty pizza and pasta.

bug#22030: chown permission denied

2015-11-30 Thread Catalino Rivera
Hi, Here it is... root@wifundev:/media/windowsshare# chown --version chown (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

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

2015-11-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 30/11/15 21:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well. >> >> The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also >> used in

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

2015-11-30 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 11/30/2015 11:36 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Looks good. > > Marking bug as done. Thanks, pushed at http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f7ab20c Have a nice day, Berny