On 2019-09-02 17:22, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Just recently I've been asked (off-list) why src/true.c needs to have
80+ lines while 3 lines would be enough.
This piqued my curiosity. Obvious comment header, localization, and
--{help,version} fluff aside, I was not aware of the
2019-10-17 14:22:53 +0300, Yair Lenga:
[...]
> Would like to ask that you will consider the following extension to 'date'.
> The change will make it easier to perform basic date manipulations in
> scripts.
>
> The request is to add the following 'suffixes' to the date (similar to the
> way
I installed the attached patches to fix some minor glitches with
programs like 'shuf' failing to reject invalid arguments like '-n 0x'
where the trailing 'x' is ignored. The last two patches do the real
work; the others are minor cleanups.
>From d4cbfaeca1e838a0d0373adfbd133a9f5eaa8e87 Mon Sep
On 2019-10-21 08:28, Rasmus Borup Hansen wrote:
> [...] e.g. this hangs on my machine:
>
> mkfifo fifo && seq -s , 2 | tee fifo | join -j2 - fifo | paste -s && rm
> fifo
okay, then better use a regular file, and join that with itself:
$ seq -s , 2 > x
$ join -j2 x x | paste -s
