On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 03:58:51PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks, that's better, but we're still missing some opportunities for
> improvement.
>
> > mv: cannot move 'A' to 'B/A': Target directory not empty
>
> This should be "Destination" not "Target".
[...]
> You meant "mv" not
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
Except for the surrogates
U+D800...U+DFFF, it looks like an arbitrary restriction
It's not entirely arbitrary. Because of the restriction, coreutils printf
doesn't have to worry about what this command should do:
printf '\u0025d\n' 1 2
Does this print a single line
> On Thu, 01 Aug 2019, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I agree this is a bit surprising.
Indeed, it most certainly violates the principle of least surprise.
Especially, it means that a shell script that will run in bash won't
run in a shell that doesn't have a built-in printf.
> The full manual
On 01/08/19 12:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> [Forwarding bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/680244 as requested by the
> Gentoo package maintainer.]
>
> According to printf(1):
>
>Interpreted sequences are:
>[...]
>
>\u Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value (4 digits)
[Forwarding bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/680244 as requested by the
Gentoo package maintainer.]
According to printf(1):
Interpreted sequences are:
[...]
\u Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value (4 digits)
\U
Unicode character with hex value
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > An explicit error explicitly saying "cannot move", and mention the source
> > and
> > destination, and also "blames" the target directory seems the most
> > user-friendly and least ambiguous.
>
> Sure,
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:05:05PM -0600, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 7/29/19 1:28 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > > + if (rename_errno == ENOTEMPTY || rename_errno == EEXIST)
> > > +{
> > > + error (0, 0,
