Re: cp --help

2005-01-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Johan Boule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the output of cp --help, the line of --no-dereferrence should be merged with the line of -P, like: -P, --no-dereferrence never follow symbolic links Thanks for pointing that out. Now cp's --help output looks like this: Usage: ./cp

Re: more 5.3.0 issues on cygwin

2005-01-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However, the Makefile.am patches are still important to allow the tests/help-version script to succeed without filling the disk (otherwise, you eval `args=$yes.exe_args', then run `yes.exe .exe_args' which runs away, rather than the intended `yes

unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1

2005-01-24 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
L.S. When I'm doing something inappropriate please forgive me as I am unaware of any rules or guidelines for submitting an error report. Program: date, version 5.2.1 Platform: Fedora core 3 Kernel: 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 glibc:2.3.4 Problem seen: $ date -u -d 2005-03-20T01:00:00 Sat Mar

coreutils 5.3.0: cp --parents broken

2005-01-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
$ ./cp --parents /bin/cp /tmp ./cp: failed to get attributes of `bin': No such file or directory Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 And

Re: bug in seq command?

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Andrew D Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please clear up my misunderstanding, because it seems to me that the fix is indeed trivial. Note 1) The million below should, of course, be a parameter But that means the change as it stands isn't complete or correct in general. And if the complete

Re: coreutils 5.3.0: cp --parents broken

2005-01-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ./cp --parents /bin/cp /tmp ./cp: failed to get attributes of `bin': No such file or directory Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce that: $ ./cp --parents /bin/cp /tmp $ find /tmp/bin /tmp/bin /tmp/bin/cp $ Would you please investigate

Re: Showing actual filesizes with ls

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Joakim Rosqvist (JRO.SE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, what would ls show for files that are neither regular files nor symlinks? E.g., what size would it show for character devices? For now, it will be a zero (which is what ls -s also shows), as that is what the size field of the inode

Re: cp --help

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -l, --link link files instead of copying -L, --dereferencealways follow symbolic links -P --no-dereference never follow symbolic links There's a comma missing after that -P. I installed this obvious

Re: Showing actual filesizes with ls

2005-01-24 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:00:33PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: This sounds a bit too much like creeping featurism. How about if we just add a more-general argument that lets you specify the desired output fields, as a format string? That's in the TODO list. It would solve your problem, no?

Re: unexpected behaviour date (coreutils) 5.2.1

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Alex van den Bogaerdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further experimenting shows the letter is considered to be a timezone or something alike. However, a properly formatted ISO8601 timestamp must have the T between date and time (AFAIK) so the current behaviour seems to be wrong. What we have

Re: coreutils 5.3.0: cp --parents broken

2005-01-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ./cp --parents /bin/cp /tmp ./cp: failed to get attributes of `bin': No such file or directory Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce that: Please make sure that /tmp/bin does not exist. Does your /bin