bug#23556: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, looks like this weekend's (routing?) problems related to mail delivery to @gnu.org addresses, which were also noticed by at least three other people, are resolved now :) I forwarded my mail to the Debian BTS (since it didn't get delivered at first), but the people that read it there did not

bug#23516: tail -f

2016-05-16 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 05/16/2016 08:44 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/05/16 23:29, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> [...] somehow the email didn't >> reach the list: >> >>23...@debbugs.gnu.org: >>no valid MX hosts found > > Bob had an explanation for what maybe happened here: >

bug#23556: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/14/2016 08:17 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > Hi, > > the man page sort(1) contains a misleading description of the option -n: > compare according to string numerical value That sounds accurate to me, although as Assaf pointed out, suggested wording improvements are welcome. > $ printf

bug#23556: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Carsten, On 05/14/2016 10:17 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: the man page sort(1) contains a misleading description of the option -n: [...] $ man sort | grep -A1 -- --numeric-sort | sed -n -e 's/^ *//' -e '1!p' compare according to string numerical value [...] This description reads

bug#23516: tail -f

2016-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/05/16 23:29, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 05/12/2016 10:54 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/05/16 21:35, Alan Aguia wrote: Hi I have a developement in Azure using docker and Ubuntu, Apache y Php and I am getting the following error tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42 for

bug#23516: tail -f

2016-05-16 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 05/12/2016 10:54 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 11/05/16 21:35, Alan Aguia wrote: >> Hi I have a developement in Azure using docker and Ubuntu, Apache y Php and >> I am getting the following error >> >> tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42 for >> '/var/appdata/logs/application.log'.

bug#23556: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, the man page sort(1) contains a misleading description of the option -n: $ lsb_release -ic Distributor ID: Debian Codename: jessie $ sort --version | sed -n 1p sort (GNU coreutils) 8.23 $ man sort | grep -A1 -- --numeric-sort | sed -n -e 's/^ *//' -e '1!p'

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/05/16 14:47, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: ​Did this get anywhere? Nothing public unfortunately. ​Are there difficulties one might be able to help with? I just don't have the

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> >> ​Did this get anywhere? >> > > Nothing public unfortunately. ​Are there difficulties one might be able to help with? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 29 November 2012 at 19:16, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: I definitely think this is worthwhile. Great! Where to