Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid actual/expected mismatch due to changed diagnostic

2013-02-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > I noticed two new test failures, both minor. Here are fixes: ... > Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid actual/expected mismatch due to changed > diagnostic > > * tests/cp/fail-perm.sh: Adjust expected diagnostic to match > just-changed cp diagnostic. > * tests/ln/hard-to-sym.sh: L

new snapshot available: coreutils-8.20.113-1f1f4

2013-02-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
We plan to release coreutils-8.21 next week, so any testing you can do between now and Tuesday would be most welcome. Here's the NEWS: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS coreutils snapshot: http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 5.1 MB http://pixelbeat.org/cu/cor

Re: uniq - check specific fields

2013-02-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/07/2013 05:13 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Hello, Attached is a proof-of-concept patch to add "--check-fields=N" to uniq, allowing uniq'ing by specific fields. (Trying a different approach at promoting csplit-by-field [1] :) ). It works just like 'check-chars' but on fields, and if not used,

[PATCH] tests: avoid actual/expected mismatch due to changed diagnostic

2013-02-07 Thread Jim Meyering
I noticed two new test failures, both minor. Here are fixes: >From f3569a9b3f18a0f22ce137c90826c0553b6da9ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:43:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: avoid actual/expected mismatch due to changed diagnostic * tests/cp/fail-perm.sh:

[PATCH] build: update gnulib submodule; also bootstrap to latest

2013-02-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Notes tests/init.sh is still in sync with gnulib * bootstrap: update to latest * gnulib: update avoiding secure_getenv and subsequent patches as these are reported to fail on FreeBSD at least. --- bootstrap | 166 ++--- gnulib|2 +-

uniq - check specific fields

2013-02-07 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Attached is a proof-of-concept patch to add "--check-fields=N" to uniq, allowing uniq'ing by specific fields. (Trying a different approach at promoting csplit-by-field [1] :) ). It works just like 'check-chars' but on fields, and if not used, it does not affect the program flow. ===

Re: csplit - split by content of field

2013-02-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 02/07/2013 03:02 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote, On 02/06/2013 05:38 PM: On 02/06/2013 10:09 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: Attach is a patch that gives 'csplit' the ability to split files by content of a field. Yes such a feature is useful, though maybe in conjuntion with uniq: ht

Re: csplit - split by content of field

2013-02-07 Thread Assaf Gordon
Pádraig Brady wrote, On 02/06/2013 05:38 PM: > On 02/06/2013 10:09 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> >> Attach is a patch that gives 'csplit' the ability to split files by content >> of a field. >> > Yes such a feature is useful, though maybe in conjuntion with uniq: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/c