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Once upon a midnight dreary, Jim Meyering pondered, weak and weary:
> sort: Add an ordering option -R that causes 'sort' to sort according
> to a random permutation of the correct sort order.
This means that two different files, that happen to s
Thanks for the offer.
Here is the coreutils TODO item that suggests some design goals:
sort: Add an ordering option -R that causes 'sort' to sort according
to a random permutation of the correct sort order. Also, add an
option --random-seed=SEED that causes 'sort' to use an arbitrary
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(again, CC any replies. If this too much bother, I'll subscribe)
Once upon a midnight dreary, Bob Proulx pondered, weak and weary:
> > So, added -R, --random.
> Normally to do this I usually use the nonstandard $RANDOM extension
Ah. Nice. I hadn't tho
Thomas Habets wrote:
> (if this email goes to a mailinglist then I'm not on it. Please CC
> any replies if that is the case)
> [...]
> So, added -R, --random.
I like the idea of providing a pseudo-randomizing, shuffling
capability. I have actually wanted that myself on occasion. Normally
to do t
Martin Edlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not reporting a real bug, but I think it should be fixed.
>
> I use Fedora Core 1 with Czech environment and when I typed
> 'install --help' I got Czech translation of 1st as 1-ni, 2nd as 2-hy
> and 3rd as 3-ti which is nonsense. Czech rule
Hi!
I got this error from 'make check' on my Solaris 8 system, before
installing coreutils:
make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/sfw/src/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/stty'
FAIL: row-col-1
PASS: basic-1
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1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I built coreutils with a native GCC compiler on the NSLU2 which is an
armv5b device. I keep getting circular directory structure even though
the filesystem is fine. Here the error messages exactly, and any info I
think is useful:
DATABANK:/opt/src root# ls
bash-3.0 coreutil.tar coreutils-5.2.
On 2004-08-27T00:09-0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
) > (note that this implies that "ls --help" does violate
) > the Utility Syntax Guidelines, but that it's OK to do so)
) Right - since it doesn't follow the syntax, the guidelines don't have
) anything to say about the meaning of --help. But the guidelin
