Re: info info

e report; Karl Berry reported the same problem earlier this month, and we plan on fixing it before the next coreutils release: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00118.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: unable to run cut -d\

\\ -f3 cut -d'\' -f3 which shell quoting then turns into "cut" "-d\" "-f3" (just a single backslash to -d, and a separate argument for -f3). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/10/2008 7:15 AM: >> I've wanted to get rid of "signal" uses for ages. >> Are you interested in doing it? > > Yes, I'll tackle this. Round 1: csplit. The use of signal here mirro

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

, while 1.10.1 is the .1 patch release in the older 1.10 series. Maybe this is a bug in filevercmp? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcas

Re: ajuda para destravar pasta

for help, nor even whetehr it is specifically about a program provided by GNU Coreutils. You may be better off finding a local Unix user's group where you can ask your question without language barriers. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

complaining about unrecognized options is necessary for standard compliance (ie. all earlier versions of coreutils had a bug in this area), so we should not revert it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

provides this extension to Posix is a relatively strong argument for adding it to coreutils. What long option name would you give it? Care to write a patch for review? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [PATCH x 5] warnings, some legit

)) > - freopen (NULL, "wb", stdout); > + xfreopen (NULL, "wb", stdout); Yep, this is one of those places where a blind freopen(NULL,"wb",stdout) is wrong if stdout is originally in append mode, and where you would expose the xfreopen bug. I need to revisit some of my cygwin-specific patches and push them upstream. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-gnulib] According to Jim Meyering on 10/16/2008 1:30 AM: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> Subject: [PATCH] csplit: prefer sigaction over signal >> >> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Impor

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/10/2008 7:15 AM: >> I've wanted to get rid of "signal" uses for ages. >> Are you interested in doing it? > > Yes, I'll tackle this. Round 2 begins with a question. src/install.c h

Re: print ID of given group

ss we first clear the legal hurdle of whether it is safe to include, and the technical hurdle of whether this is the best way to get at this functionality. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: join ?

on. We should probably try to fix seq to use getopt, while being sensitive to the recent changes in expr, so that options can appear out of order like most GNU tools, while negative numbers are still recognized as such rather than options] - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as we

Re: Problem with ubuntu 8.04

buntu.com/support/communitysupport http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: Man page ommission, "date" command

r site, the command info date should give you access to the complete manual. Furthermore, within the info manual, the documentation of valid date formats spans several pages (ie. it is WAY too complex to concisely summarize in one or two sentences). - -- Don't work too hard, m

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

t be interpreted as an option by someone that extends the standard. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gp

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

language=m4sugar - outputs -1 if $ver is smaller, 0 if equal, 1 if greater than $prereq. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.co

Re: pwd doesn't support -L or -P

OSIX requires pwd to default to -L, but coreutils defaults to -P, I'm not sure whether we would be breaking the large number of scripts that have come to rely on /bin/pwd supplying -P semantics. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

if [ `expr "$lscmd" : '.*->.*'` -ne 0 ]; then # do stuff here... fi can be rewritten as the following faster alternative (completely avoiding a fork, and any expr bugs, altogether): case $lscmd in *'->'* ) ;; *) # do stuff here... ;; esac - -- Don

Re: coreutils-6.12 fails to build on Solaris

/msg0.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg C

Re: RFC: changing the "+" in ls -l output to be "." or "+"

n force. And SELinux contexts count as an alternate access control. "The shall be a single if there is no alternate or additional access control method associated with the file; otherwise, a printable character shall be used." http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/l

group-list warning

During the window of buggy autoconf, I saw this evidence of a latent bug for platforms that lack getgroups: group-list.c: In function `print_group_list': group-list.c:89: warning: control reaches end of non-void function OK to commit? From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri,

Re: 'file' says that MS-eula is of type "MPEG ADTS"

hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - ht

Re: 'file' says that MS-eula is of type "MPEG ADTS"

a bug, and should be reported). And for any non-GNU program, having gnu.org track a bug-reporting address seems pointless, since it is not a GNU program and we don't control the bug-reporting address - we'd rather not advertise stale information. - -- Don't work too hard, ma

Re: mkdir -p and -m cannot be used together

. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARE

[bug #24737] generated Makefile broken under Solaris

Update of bug #24737 (project coreutils): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Known bug, and a

Re: Problem with ubuntu 8.04

me mistake of contacting coreutils when a chown of an unrelated project failed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eri

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image

buntu users mailing lists would be a better source of information. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

ld the second line's %s be filled in from? You would need to add another last_component call as an additional printf argument before you could suggest that. Doesn't it just suffice to have the text read: Report ls bugs to . Report translation bugs to <...>. - -- Don't work too hard

Re: [Bug 294348] Re: ubuntu directing users to coreutils mailing list for general problems

tp://translationproject.org/team/. Otherwise, replace > + the entire URL with your team's email address. */ > + if (hard_locale (LC_MESSAGES)) > +fputs (_("Report translation bugs to " > + "<http://translationproject.org/team/>\n"), stdout); Do you

configure syntax issue

geLog into the main generated top-level ChangeLog? From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:44:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] jm-macros.m4: avoid syntax issue with newer autoconf * jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Make LIB_CAP assignment persistent. Signed-off-by: Eric Bl

Re: dircolors utility

dircolors $HOME/.dir_colors`" Note the back-ticks, not single quotes. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.

Re: chroot manpage not in section 8

ng chroot.1 rather than changing to chroot.8. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: bug in expr

table to POSIX (since 'match' is an extension), you should use the colon operator: expr "ut96_01_200" : "[^0-9]*\([0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9]\)" - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: [PATCH]: chmod - do inform about using different mode than requested with SGID/SUID/sticky bits without permissions to change them

- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: unix command od got a bug

engroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/od.html; you want to use the -v option to output lines with duplicate content rather than the * elision line. See also this recent post: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00208.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time f

Re: Bug or Feature in mkdir(1)

in case some other process is trying to create the directories in parallel). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gp

Re: "du -b --files0-from=-" running out of memory

for a grand total. > > Is there any other alternative to running e.g. xargs -0 du -b, possibly > with a high -n to xargs to limit memory leakage? > > -- Barry > - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEG

Re: bug report

/2008-11/msg00096.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using Gnu

sys/wait on Solaris (was: bug report)

-- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: what a pitiful explanation for sha1sum

o elaborate? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org i

Re: what a pitiful explanation for sha1sum

; Doesn't 'sha1sum --help' already provide this information? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~er

[bug #24949] coreutils pwd not implementing latest POSIX features

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #24949 (project coreutils): This has been brought up repeatedly in the past; see this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00293.html ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: du --files-from feature request

tail command that also could be avoided > # if there were an option to only display the grand total Oh, so you are asking for a way to show only the grand total, in addition to --files0-from. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: [bug #24974] Document that comm's option "-1", "-2" and "-3" can be combined

. I would not support the --nocheck-order option. > I guess very few scripts actually use the --nocheck-order option. I could go either way, but agree that --nocheck-order is probably a new-enough invention that we can remove it altogether. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as

using gpg on Windows (was: (no subject))

r questions about using GNU software on Windows by asking the people that provide the precompiled binary that you are using (such as the cygwin or mingw lists). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: REQ: -g for --block-size=1G

ong as we don't introduce any ambiguous long options, the equivalent --b=G)? -- Eric Blake -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/REQ%3A--g-for---block-size%3D1G-tp20861569p20864739.html Sent from the Gnu - Coreutils - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: du --files-from feature request

mbiguous abbreviations, so --from-files is shorthand for --from-files0, meaning that you still plan on using NUL terminators rather than newline terminators). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: du --files-from feature request

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/6/2008 8:06 AM: >> this by determining what the (possibly multi byte) newline sequence is >> and make a --from-files work? > > --from-files0 (although, the way getopt works, you can use unambiguous &

Re: REQ: -g for --block-size=1G

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Greg on 12/6/2008 9:41 AM: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now, with regards to your request about -g - we are very reluctant >> to add short options without good reason.

Re: du --files-from feature request

b PATTERN. find -iname "$1" -type f -print0 | du --files0-from - - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericbl

Re: du --files-from feature request

think - there is no way to make tr cause character sequences in the original expand to even more characters in the replacement; you need sed for that. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: du --files-from feature request

ame, --quoting-style > I > didn't see one for find. - -print0 > I forgot that backspace, etc are keys... joy. I need it fully escaped > from the beginning. Depending on which escaping style you need, ls --quoting-style seems to fit the bill. - -- Don't work too hard, m

Re: Bug in uname

dered poor netiquette. This disclaimer is unenforceable on a publicly archived mailing list, but some people refuse to reply on principle. Therefore, you are better off sending mail from a different email account. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: split() command

ite GNU extensions. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: split() command

t a factor. Also, type 'split --version' to verify which version of split you are using. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.

Re: split() command

. There's your reason. That is YEARS old, and predates the implementation of many of the POSIX features. You want to install coreutils 6.12 (stable) or 7.0 (beta) instead. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGI

df usage (was: bug)

x27;, so it errors out instead. This is not a bug in df, but in your usage pattern. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~eri

Re: all around trouble

Since you are using Ubuntu then the Ubuntu users mailing lists would be a better source of information. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 CD Image

lp us so > > that we could improve the directions it would help others. Thanks! > > I do not recall where I found the link in question... Oh well, thanks for replying. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: wc command

sider using a different account when mailing bug reports. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment:

Re: better figure out a paperless copyright assignment method

en we can't do anything to change the situation? You should be asking the FSF licensing list: ass...@gnu.org http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Papers - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: md5sum prints binary junk when given bad input

7;MD5 (' | md5sum -c - Now, md5sum ignores that line. sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: md5sum prints binary junk when given bad input

ently ignoring invalid lines makes md5sum more like patch: by ignoring irrelevant lines until it identifies the data important to the program, it is much easier to run the program on an entire email than it is to extract just the relevant portion to feed to the tool. > > Cheers, >

Re: ls and non-equivalence between -1 and single-column

a doc update. > > tried with: coreutils package 6.10-3ubuntu2 The latest stable release is 6.12; you can also try beta 7.0. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Co

Re: wc command

on't like adding additional uses of POSIXLY_CORRECT, but this particular idea may help stave off confusion. Care to write such a patch? It would need to be applied to all of the coreutils that can act as a filter, not just wc. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun a

Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

r on that platform when you mix-n-match -fin? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~e

Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

-R -H -L' (-H and -L are mutually exclusive; we silently accept the last of the conflicting options, but are allowed to issue an error). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cy

Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

Not quite. -f and -i do not override each other. Per POSIX, they affect independent code paths, such that: cp cp -f cp -i cp -f -i (also spelled cp -i -f) have four different behaviors. -- Eric Blake -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cp-mv%3A-add--n-option-to-not-ove

Re: wc command

n. >> I'm 40:60 for this proposal. > > I too would prefer not to introduce > such new tests of POSIXLY_CORRECT. And even though I proposed the idea, I'm not that much of a fan of it myself; I guess that means we won't be changing anything. - -- Don't work

Re: configure requests automake 1.10a

s. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Moz

Re: date gives error on valid input

ste action as input to od. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-12/msg00063.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: printf(1) does not support argument swapping

we will probably consider it for coreutils' printf. If you want the bash builtin to also make this improvement, then bring that to the attention of the bug-bash list. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: rm option to not recurse across filesystems

m when another tool can already do the desired filtering job. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Usi

Re: Suggestion for rmdir

rsive 'rm' deletes regular files to cause the directory to become empty and thus removable, while 'rmdir' only removes directories that were already empty or contain only empty subdirectories also being removed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric

Re: Suggestion for rmdir

coreutils understand unambiguous abbreviations would be a nice addition. Jim, okay to apply this? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast

option abbreviation exceptions (was: Suggestion for rmdir)

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version} > -options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. > +options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For > +these programs, abbreviati

Re: printf(1) does not support argument swapping

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > Thanks for the report. POSIX does not require printf(1) to support > argument swapping: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html > > So this is technically not a bug. However, if you would like to submit a > pa

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > Certainly some inconsistent behavior. echo takes multiple arguments, but only > when they are the short options -[neE] (I guess it's okay that they don't have > long-option variants?). But when --help or --version is present, echo acts &

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

gh again that seems a little contrived. if cond ; then foo=file1 else foo=file2 fi truncate -s0 <$foo - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key a

Re: chown and bash trashed part of system

//www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#ls-_002da-_002a-does-not-list-dot-files - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~

Re: chown and bash trashed part of system

elying on the shortcuts that one shell provides, so you don't fall prey when you move to another machine with a different shell. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comm

Re: Support in sort for human-readable numbers

re up my browser (or use wget in a terminal) to go hunting for the patch. Not to mention that the list archives are easier to browse when all patches go through the list. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: Bug in date command

ings changes), due to the large number of people who don't realize the subtleties involved. Perhaps we should create a FAQ entry with the most common of these reports. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http:

Re: Bug in date command

than what POSIX requires. "The %Y and %U options work in combination." To be fair, we should state that the %Y and your choice of %U/%W work in combination (%W if you want Monday, %U if you want Sunday as the first day of the week). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fu

Re: cp/mv: add -n option to not overwrite target (Ubuntu bug #229182)

his actually do the right thing, or does it only prevent overwrites at spots where, without arguments, a prompt would be issued? In other words, is this particular implementation reinventing the same problems as the deprecated --reply=no? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

tions does seem like it'd be an improvement. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment:

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

r [, which react differently to invalid options, will react the same way to an abbreviation as to any other invalid option. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwi

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

help --version | head -n1 src/expr: syntax error expr currently uses parse_long_options, while factor does not; therefore factor is able to handle --help --version while expr is not. Maybe parse_long_options should be taught to recognize multiple options that all match an abbreviation of --help/-

Re: option abbreviation exceptions

bbreviations). I went ahead and pushed this to the next branch, to make it easier to test. Since that branch is subject to rebasing, we can remove (or rework) this patch as needed before making it official. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e

Re: --min-size option for du (patch)

))c - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mo

Re: Date can dish it out, but not parse it back in

ake some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklv34wACgkQ84KuGf

Re: coreutils.texi too big

all, that is how gnulib's documentation is maintained. From an archeological point of view, it is indeed easier to trace the history of a single node if that node is isolated to its own file. Care to submit a patch? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: wc -l doesn't count partial lines

oes not count as a line): http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericbl

man pages and new --help output

/coreutils/ General help using GNU software: |http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/ | | AUTHOR In other words, we lost the REPORTING BUGS section. help2man needs to be taught how to handle the current coreutils practice of inserting the program name in between "Report" and "bugs&qu

Re: man pages and new --help output

ome page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/%s/>.\n"), > PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE); Part of this change is wrong; "home" does not start the sentence, and the result should read "GNU coreutils home page:". -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-co

Re: coreutils-6.12.208-2441 and strtold

ion is no longer the 6.12 series, but the 7.0 series. It is the master branch, that is: 'git checkout master'. When I checked this morning, it was at 7.0-153-g0d5508d (that is, we have had 153 patches since 7.0 was published, and the current commit id is 0d5508d). - -- Don't work

Re: date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago"

t to be one of these gnulib patches: git log 30ffdfc..81e61b -- lib/getdate.y although several of them touch relative computations, so it wasn't obvious from just the ChangeLog messages. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreut

Re: Difference in ln/ln -s semantics

The trick is coming up with a concise statement for the --help output which might help here. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home

Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

just tr are affected). Several distros have written add-on patches which attempt to provide multibyte support, but none of those patches has been incorporated upstream. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: Using absolute path instead of relative path on all operations

caused by having two means of tracking current location in the shell, but only one means of tracking it once you leave the shell. If it bothers you that much, then add an alias or shell function to supply the -P argument to your shell's cd and pwd commands. - -- Don't work too hard,

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