Re: new coreutils snapshot; are they useful?

Matthew Woehlke wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Last night I made another coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz.sig aka http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-ss-2007-02-14.00:04:10+0.tar.gz http://meyeri

Re: dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB

Le Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:13:14 -0800, Paul Eggert disait : > Olivier Delhomme writes: > > > 3. used with "quiet" parameter it turns off the output (stated > > a long time ago here : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045). > > OK, but status=noxfer does that already,

Re: tail command

> I've just updated my PC with Fedora core 6. > I found that the "tail +n" command does not work anymore ? > Is that normal ??? Yes. This is turning into a FAQ, but has not yet been added to the FAQ webpage. See this earlier response from the archives: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreu

Re: sort and "<>" characters

> I have a portability problem : "<" should be sorted before ">" Only if your locale is set up that way. This is a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Consider exporting LC_ALL=C and comparing the difference in the results -

Re: not sure if it is a bug, but...

Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Eureka Trek wrote: >> It seems that the cp command interpreted the spaces as >> indicating seperate files > > as it should have It didn't, the shell did. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Li

Re: not sure if it is a bug, but...

Eureka Trek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not really sure if this is a bug on the part of the > command "cp" or just bad programming on the part of > the Nautilus CD/DVD Creator developers in having a > default naming convention for discs that includes > spaces in the name. Neither. You need to

Re: not sure if it is a bug, but...

On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Eureka Trek wrote: > It seems that the cp command interpreted the spaces as > indicating seperate files as it should have > Not really sure if this is a bug on the part of the > command "cp" or just bad programming on the part of > the Nautilus CD/DVD Creator develo

not sure if it is a bug, but...

Recently I found myself in the position of having to copy material from a cd using the command "cp". The material being copied from the cd was burned to the cd using Nautilus's CD/DVD Creator. The default name given to the cd was: "Personal Data, Feb 13, 2007". Note the spaces in the name. Whe

tail command

Hello, I've just updated my PC with Fedora core 6. I found that the "tail +n" command does not work anymore ? Is that normal ??? Thanks in advance for your response -- === Hao Tang CEMES/CNRS 29, rue Jeanne Marvig B.P. 94347 31055 Toulouse Cedex Tel : +33 (0)5-62

sort and "<>" characters

Hi, I have a portability problem : "<" should be sorted before ">" On this host: SunOS aldente 5.7 Generic_106541-42 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 I have the following sequence: <>1-9a-z On this host Linux syclin20 2.4.21-20.ELdiamant #2 SMP Thu Jun 30 09:46:43 CEST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I ha