Re: Stat Command

2006-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Kohl wrote: > Dear Michael - But you addressed this to the bug-coreutils list? The GNU coreutils are the basic text, file and shell utilities of the GNU system. > I'm interested in the "stat command", particularly in > what the following output represents... > > IO Block? (what does this

Re: 'who' do not let me know which user is loged in since names are cuted 8 characters

2006-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it possibel to add an option to "who" to show the full ${LOGNAME} > > of the ${USER} ? > > > > On my FileServer I have 17.000 ${USER} and 56 of them are shown only > > as "michelle". So I can not know, which "michelle" is

Re: Weirdness in groups and id commans

2006-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Ismail Donmez wrote: > Hi, > > Using coreutils 6.4 , > > [~]> whoami > cartman > [~]> groups > users disk wheel audio dialout video pnp removable power Lists the access groups of the currently running process. > [~]> groups cartman > users disk wheel audio dialout video apache pnp removable pow

Re: bug in tr?

2006-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I working on script to alfabetical catalogue my files and... > try this: > > mkdir for_test; cd for_test > mkdir q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l z x c v b n m > echo WoRd | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] > > any sloution? Quote your arguments to TR so that they are not e

bug in tr?

2006-11-02 Thread lewd
Hi. I working on script to alfabetical catalogue my files and... try this: mkdir for_test; cd for_test mkdir q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l z x c v b n m echo WoRd | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] any sloution? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-core

Weirdness in groups and id commans

2006-11-02 Thread Ismail Donmez
Hi, Using coreutils 6.4 , [~]> whoami cartman [~]> groups users disk wheel audio dialout video pnp removable power [~]> groups cartman users disk wheel audio dialout video apache pnp removable power Notice that "apache" is in the second output, id shows similar behaviour, [~]> id uid=1000(cart

Stat Command

2006-11-02 Thread Martin Kohl
Dear Michael - I'm interested in the "stat command", particularly in what the following output represents... IO Block? (what does this mean) Blocks? (what does this mean) Device? (what does this mean) A sample output from my machine: stat termcap File: `termcap' Size: 799248 Bl

Re: Composing sentences makes them hard to translate

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [cc'ing bug-gnulib, since the bug really lies there, and bug-m4, since it is a concrete example of an affected package. This started at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-11/msg0.html. Replies can probably trim all lists except b

Re: Composing sentences makes them hard to translate

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Meyering
"Göran Uddeborg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Eggert writes: >> True, but how would we fix it? > > Wouldn't it be possible to enumerate the objects, just as you do for > the errors? That is, you would call > > STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR (spec, block_size, e); > > where "block_size" is a value in

Re: Composing sentences makes them hard to translate

2006-11-02 Thread Göran Uddeborg
Paul Eggert writes: > True, but how would we fix it? Wouldn't it be possible to enumerate the objects, just as you do for the errors? That is, you would call STRTOL_FATAL_ERROR (spec, block_size, e); where "block_size" is a value in an enumeration type defined in xstrtol.h similar to strtol