On 8/14/19 3:10 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 8/14/19 7:01 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Shouldn't it be just
-n
No, because 'echo' is one of the few exceptions to the rule, in that
POSIX specifically mandates that it NOT recognize -- as an
end-of-options marker.
But then the "-n"
On 8/14/19 10:23 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
2019-08-14 09:28:22 -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils):
[...]
According to POSIX, echo doesn't take options. It is specified
that "Implementations shall not support any options."
(We have options, though, so things are complicated.)
[...]
The POSIX
Hi folks,
I just learned by accident that
var="-n"
/bin/echo -- $var
actually prints
-- -n
Shouldn't it be just
-n
?
Other tools in coreutils use '--' to indicate "stop parsing for
command line flags", e.g. touch, ls and rm:
% /bin/touch -- -l
On 5/13/18 1:08 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> If you look under --quoting-style, you'll
> see:
> --quoting-style=WORD use quoting style WORD for entry names:
> literal, locale, shell, shell-always,
> shell-escape, shell-escape-always, c, escape
>
> I
Hi folks,
How can I tell ls to create a *real* escape shell style without quotes?
A file name like
A Knight's Tale: Part 2
should be shown as
A\ Knight\'s\ Tale\:\ Part\ 2
Similar to bash's command line completion.
I had hoped for QUOTING_STYLE=escape, but it just gives me
Hi Eric,
On 02/23/18 15:01, Eric Blake wrote:
On 02/23/2018 02:14 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi folks,
I would like to suggest to introduce an environment variable
"LS_ARGS", holding the default arguments to ls (similar to $LESS).
This could help to simplify the user environment.
Hi Ben,
On 02/15/18 08:16, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
I'm not sure what's happening there, but it seems that your terminal
doesn't know how to display the 2-byte representation "c3 a4"; neither
gnome-terminal nor xterm have problems to display it here:
$ /bin/ls -log /tmp/Q*
-rw-r--r-- 1 0
Hi Berny,
On 02/08/18 00:34, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 02/07/2018 10:12 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
I wonder who is supposed to benefit from this change? For a
human eye these constructs are simply unrecognizable, unless
you look*very* closely.
:
:
This is nice IMO.
Your example was quite
Hi folks,
One of my favorites is
ls -ld `find /some/dir -print`
It creates a much better readable output than "ls -R".
Its shortcomings are clear: 2 many arguments on the command
line, takes an awful lot of time to execute, problems with
space chars, etc. Surely this command line could
Hi folks,
I highly appreciate your work to provide excellent tools for
decades.
There is one thing I would like to ask for, though: Would you
mind to support "full" man pages instead of the "full-docu-can-
be-found-in-info-or-on-the-web-only" pages (e.g. dd(1), cpio(1))?
Advantages:
- no
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On 02/02/16 14:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/01/2016 11:17 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>
>> This means that the user has to count '\' and "'" in the output of ls to get
>> the "real" filename.
>
> Ye
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Hi folks,
how comes that suddenly I have to define an environment variable
QUOTING_STYLE=literal
for something that worked very well since the 70s? I appreciate
your continuous effort to improve coreutils, but this change is a
bad move.
Hi folks,
a dry run mode for chmod and chown would be very helpful,
especially together with -v --reference-file.
Hopefully I am not too blind to see. Most recent version
I checked was coreutils 8.23.
Thanx very much. Please keep on your good work
Harri
--
aixigo AG, Karl-Friedrich-Strasse
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Hi folks,
According to the man page sort -z and shuf -z are supposed to
end lines with 0 byte, not newline. This doesn't work. Example:
% ( echo 1; echo 2; echo 3 ) | tac | sort -z | xargs -0 -L 1 echo xxx
xxx 3
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