"mv" core dump

2000-11-05 Thread Giles
Hi. "mv" dumped core on me yesterday. I nearly fell out of my chair: it's a tribute to the stability of the GNU utils that I thought it couldn't happen! :-) This is a new install of RH7.0 on a new system. "mv" is a part of the "fileutils-4.0x-3" RPM that came with the RH7.0 CD. I was moving

Re: "mv" core dump

2000-11-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks for the report. That was indeed a bug. It's fixed in the latest test release. Please don't use anything but the very latest: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.31.tar.gz 4.0.30 had a bug in mkdir. Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi. | | "mv" dumped core on me yesterday.

HELP

2000-11-05 Thread Steve Rutkowski
    How could I remove the file"   "-rw-r--r--   1 esportse bbsuser 0 Nov  5 12:56 -rwxr-xr-x"     Thanks Steve ---Steven F. Rutkowski    303-690-8101-

Re: HELP

2000-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
> How could I remove the file" > > "-rw-r--r-- 1 esportse bbsuser 0 Nov 5 12:56 -rwxr-xr-x" This is an almost standard answer to your commonly asked question. As you noted since the file name begins with a '-' it looks like an option to the command. You need to force it to not look

Bug: touch

2000-11-05 Thread Wenjun Zheng
- the following command does not work properly $ touch touch: file arguments missing Try `touch --help' for more information. - the following command is OK $ touch ./ - system info $ uname -a Linux jewel 2.2.15 #1 Sat Jun 3 02:39:56 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Thanks, Wenjun Zhen