bug#35336: date should respect TIME_STYLE too
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’, except date(1) itself! Date should be no different... I don't think I agree. In hindsight, that environment variable was a mistake and we shouldn't let the mistake propagate elsewhere. Standard utilities should minimize their use of nonstandard environment variables.
bug#35343: sort: printing characters: define
(info "(coreutils) sort invocation") says ‘-i’ ‘--ignore-nonprinting’ Ignore nonprinting characters. The ‘LC_CTYPE’ locale determines character types... Well this leaves the user high and dry trying to figure out what you mean by printing characters. Is SPC a printing character he wonders. It makes the printer head advance one unit, whereas ESC doesn't. So at least mention the ASCII range [A-Z...] of what your are talking about. It would only take up a word or two of the INFO page. Anyway, each program might have their own idea of "printing characters" as well as grandpa down the hall's definition. So the user is left unsure.
bug#35336: date should respect TIME_STYLE too
All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’, except date(1) itself! Date should be no different...
bug#35335: touch --verbose
Say, rm, cp, mv have --verbose.
How about for touch too?
Then one wouldn't need
$ set -x; touch /tmp/{a,b,c}.el; set +x
+ touch /tmp/a.el /tmp/b.el /tmp/c.el
to see what it was touching or not.
