weird ls behaviour on GNU/Hurd...

2004-03-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[This report is more or less just a note for my self, but if anyone has any clues, please share them] Hey, I'm getting this weird behaviour from ls (CVS version) on GNU/Hurd: , | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/coreutils/coreutils/src$ ./ls -l /tmp/time-1.7.tar.gz | -rw-r--r-- 135987201 ams root 1030

echo fix

2004-03-13 Thread Nathan W. Bachmeier
Hi, this isn't really a bug fix as more of a very needed option to echo. By adding the option -i echo will first read stdin and echo that. example: $echo hi | echo -in there $hi there I found this to be useful, if you do as well you are free to modify any of the code i have sent you to use as yo

Re: echo fix

2004-03-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Nathan W. Bachmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, this isn't really a bug fix as more of a very needed option to echo. > By adding the option -i echo will first read stdin and echo that. > > example: > $echo hi | echo -in there > $hi there $ echo hi | { cat; echo '' there; } Andreas. --

Re: rm (4.5.8) -r does not work on nfs mounted file systems

2004-03-13 Thread Jim Meyering
"Philipp, Axel , Dr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into problems with rm -r on nfs mounted file systems: Thanks for the report and the test case. That might be due to a kernel bug. Can you provide some more information? What type/version of systems are involved? What is the OS of the system

Re: echo fix

2004-03-13 Thread Bob Proulx
First, thanks for submitting this suggestion. However, I doubt it will be implemented. Nathan W. Bachmeier wrote: > Hi, this isn't really a bug fix as more of a very needed option to echo. > By adding the option -i echo will first read stdin and echo that. > > example: > $echo hi | echo -in ther

Re: manpage documentation bug for pr

2004-03-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ken Pizzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The man page for pr.1 says: > " The full documentation for pr is maintained as a Texinfo > " manual. If the info and pr programs are properly > " installed at your site, the command > " > " info coreutils pr > " > "

Re: cp --sparse might corrupt DEST

2004-03-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Changing cp as you suggest is one way to solve this problem. >> Another would be to make cp fail when it's asked to do >> something that doesn't make sense: preserve holes in a >> non-regular destination fil

Re: New utility pb (patch included)

2004-03-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I have created a new utility pb (progress bar) for gathering progress information from different utilities. Currently cp and mv are supported with a patch included. In future I could add support for other utilities such dd too. Wonderful! Always wanted something like this, but was alw

manpage documentation bug for pr

2004-03-13 Thread Ken Pizzini
The man page for pr.1 says: " The full documentation for pr is maintained as a Texinfo " manual. If the info and pr programs are properly " installed at your site, the command " " info coreutils pr " " should give you access to the complete manual. But o

Re: New utility pb (patch included)

2004-03-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Miika Pekkarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a new utility pb (progress bar) for gathering progress > information from different utilities. Currently cp and mv are supported Thank you! I haven't yet looked over this, but I like the approach. Have you signed copyright papers for thi