Re: Wishing rmdir had a prompt

2019-09-01 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
rmdir -i Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Sunday, September 1, 2019, 7:38:28 p.m. GMT-4, Lady Aleena wrote: Hello. I would love to see a -i added to rmdir to prompt me before removals of empty directories like rm has. It would give me another

Re: Simpler name for --no-clobber option

2020-03-11 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Just saw this message. for --no-clobber,   would --no-replace   suffice?   the latter could also be shortened to --nr. Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 10:32:19 a.m. GMT-4, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/03/2020

Re: Simpler name for --no-clobber option

2020-03-11 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
, 2020, 11:39:08 a.m. GMT-4, Kamil Dudka wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:37:06 PM CET Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote: > Just saw this message.    for --no-clobber,  would        --no-replace  > suffice?  the latter could also be shortened to --nr.

Re: suggestion: /etc/dd.conf

2020-04-29 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Just put the dd command into a scriptThat is what I do. I created a simple bash script that makes your actions easy and semi-automaticIt is attached.  Licensed GPL2 GPL3 (FREE TO DO WITH IT WHAT YOU WANT) Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada #!/bin/bash # Author Leslie

Unexpected results between cp -u and cp -ru

2020-08-22 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Introduction=== /share2 is a backup of /share  (each has many subdirectories) cp -u /share/* /share2 operates as described with man docs.   The cp -u  command only copies over newer files or when no file exists within /share2 Issue= The intent is to only update newer files within

Re: Disable b2sum from coreutils?

2020-07-02 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Look at the PATH statement and put it in the path directory ahead of the others, typically put your version into /usr/local/bin , which is generally in the search  $PATH s (echo $PATH)   /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin/usr/sbin Regards  Leslie   On Thursday, July 2,

Re: patch: touch --verbose

2021-04-07 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
HI Michael You declared  Is it by default, initialized to false? Should you have expressed the define as static boolean verbose= false; Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 5:31:43 p.m. EDT, Michael Cook wrote: Attached,

Re: [PATCH] ls: add --sort=width (-W) option to sort by filename width

2021-04-09 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
Perhaps FreeBSD would be interested in this enhancement.   Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Friday, April 9, 2021, 6:52:10 p.m. EDT, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/04/2021 13:02, Carl Edquist wrote: > Dear Coreutils Maintainers, > > I'd like to introduce

Re: feature request: echo --

2021-10-15 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion
I just use  printf "%s\n" "-e"-e Regards  Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Friday, October 15, 2021, 06:38:19 p.m. GMT-4, Philip Rowlands wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, at 18:42, Roger Pack wrote: > It came to my attention recently that it seems not possible to