Re: ls: column of acl

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be possible to only use one space here, too? Strictly speaking POSIX does not allow just one space there. However, I notice that Solaris "ls" sometimes outputs just one space, so I suspect this is a bug in POSIX. A reasonable course of act

Re: proposed improvement of diagnostics for missing/extra operands

2004-06-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few years ago somebody (I forgot who) suggested that "diff" output Maybe Karl Berry? I've made a few such changes based on suggestions from him. > messages like this when given too few or too many args: > >$ diff a >diff: missing operand after `a

Re: -g option in cp, etc

2004-06-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The -g or --progress options in cp and mv are not documented in their man pages. Those options are not provided by GNU cp and mv. So I think that your distribution has added those options; so you should report this to the maintainers of your distribution. Cheers!

-g option in cp, etc

2004-06-10 Thread Carl Sandrock
The -g or --progress options in cp and mv are not documented in their man pages. -- ,. | N-CH3| | ,---.,. Carl Sandrock / \ | | / ,--'| ---< MEng (C

ls: column of acl

2004-06-10 Thread Koblinger Egmont
Hi, "ls" from coreutils 5.2.1 has a nice feature that usually it uses the smallest possible amount of space possible, taking care that columns should be lined op properly. However it's not true between the 1st and 2nd column: if none of the files have any special ACL attribute then the 9 characte