Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could go either way when the single sentence of exit-status > documentation is all that follows the option descriptions. > But when there's more than that one sentence, I have a slight > preference for putting the examples at the end. Then let's do the

Re: Collating order

2005-04-05 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Ole Laursen wrote: > ~/t$ LANG=en_US ls -1 > event.C > eventgenerator.C > eventgenerator.h > event.h In other words, these sort as if they were eventc eventgeneratorc eventgeneratorh eventh > I guess the problem is that the dot has a different

Re: Collating order

2005-04-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Ole Laursen wrote: > Apparently, the way ls sort the file names does not work with a > localised sorting order. For instance, with a en_US locale, I get: Actually your issue is that ls and sort *do* work with a localised sorting order. If it did not then you would always get C/POSIX sorting. > I

Collating order

2005-04-05 Thread Ole Laursen
Hi, Apparently, the way ls sort the file names does not work with a localised sorting order. For instance, with a en_US locale, I get: ~$ mkdir t && cd t ~/t$ touch event.C event.h eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h ~/t$ LANG=en_US ls -1 event.C eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h even

Re: FYI: --help now warns about built-in conflicts

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: ... >> If anyone knows of any >> other coreutils commands that are built-in, please let me know. > > tcsh provides nice, nohup, and printenv. Not that csh-variants are > POSIX-compliant, but they are often a user's default shell, so these three > should also g

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OK, here is a handful of stuff against the CVS checkout. >> Is this OK? ... > The examples need to be written up in doc/coreutils.texi as well. > Jim, do you think they should be before or after the e

Re: I: tee doesn't handle dash properly

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
"Dmitry V. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to NEWS file, > "tee -" now writes to standard output instead of to a file named "-". > > However, tee closes stdout more than once if file is named "-": > $ env -i tee - tee: write error > rc=1 > > Proposed fix and testcases for tee could b

Re: [Patch] Adding examples to the man pages

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Meyering
> P.S. Which type of copyright thing do I need for this? If someone > can point me at the relevant stuff I'll try and get it sorted. I'll send it separately. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: install(1) man page

2005-04-05 Thread Rene Kapeller
Too bad my C programming is a bit thin. Paul Eggert wrote: Rene Kapeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Too bad, it's realy useful. No way to make that a standard option of install(1)? If someone contributes a clean patch to implement it, I'd volunteer to review it. The final decision would be Jim'