[bug #22109] Enhancement request: tr should be able to take multiple consecutive actions

2008-01-25 Thread James Youngman
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #22109 (project coreutils): Could you provide some more justification than would be nice please? Implementing the change you suggest would significantly complicate the implementation of tr, which is already quite fearsome; see for example the recent discussion of the

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Eggert
Leo Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but I have extracted the 2nd through 1000th character in the 50GB file, and there appears to be garbage (unprintable chars) in the first line. The remainder of the extract looks fine. Moreover, I split the file into

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Eggert
Leo Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sort rapidly chews up about 40-50% of total physical memory That's weird. It shouldn't do that. It doesn't do that on my machine (Debian stable x86, coreutils 6.10, compiled with GCC 4.2.2). Memory usage goes up to 250 MB (as requested) and stays there.

Re: new snapshot [Re: coreutils 6.9.92 fail to configure on *bsd

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Elias Pipping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: If that's the problem, here's an untested fix: Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to help. Thanks for checking. That suggests there's a more fundamental problem. Please do this as root: cd

[PATCH] Add jfbterm to the dircolors TERM list

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
--- src/dircolors.hin |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin index 838fa8f..3fb5a2f 100644 --- a/src/dircolors.hin +++ b/src/dircolors.hin @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ TERM dtterm TERM eterm-color TERM gnome TERM gnome-256color +TERM

Re: signbit glitch (coreutils 6.10, Solaris 8 sparc, GCC 4.2.2)

2008-01-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: I ran into the following minor glitch when compiling coreutils 6.10 on Solaris 8 sparc with GCC 4.2.2: vasnprintf.c: In function 'vasnprintf': vasnprintf.c:2196: warning: implicit declaration of function 'signbit' Thanks for reporting this. Here is a patch to the gnulib

[bug #22121] chcon help output refers to lchown system call

2008-01-25 Thread Göran Uddeborg
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22121 Summary: chcon help output refers to lchown system call Project: GNU Core Utilities Submitted by: goeran Submitted on: fredag 2008-01-25 den 21:35 Category: None

Re: Options --enable{,-no}-install-program

2008-01-25 Thread James Youngman
On Jan 8, 2008 5:46 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're really motivated, there's another minor problem: the include/exclude mechanism operates only on bin_PROGRAMS, and not bin_SCRIPTS. That means --enable-no-install-program=groups doesn't work, since groups is a script. I

Re: [bug #22109] Enhancement request: tr should be able to take multiple consecutive actions

2008-01-25 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Richard Neill wrote on 25-01-08 14:57: Only that multiple instances of tr, piped together is rather ugly, and I, personally, strongly disagree. bjd ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

[bug #22109] Enhancement request: tr should be able to take multiple consecutive actions

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
Update of bug #22109 (project coreutils): Severity: 3 - Normal = 1 - Wish Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed

[bug #22017] zic can generate files which crash the linux kernel

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
Update of bug #22017 (project coreutils): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: reversing the order in which lines appear

2008-01-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Francky Leyn wrote: Hello, I'm seeking for some way to revert the order of lines. The first line read thus must get out last and the last read must be output first. Although it's easy to write a program for it, I'm wondering if this is not possible with the UNIX toolbox. Any ideas? I

Re: reversing the order in which lines appear

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Francky Leyn on 1/25/2008 8:49 AM: | I first tought of something like cat -r, where the r stand for reverse. | Is this a good suggestion, or a bad one? So good, that it is already implemented, as 'tac'. - -- Don't work too hard, make

[bug #21999] rm fails completely on systems that don't have dirfd()

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #21999 (project coreutils): Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #6: as discussed via

Re: Options --enable{,-no}-install-program

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 8, 2008 5:46 PM, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're really motivated, there's another minor problem: the include/exclude mechanism operates only on bin_PROGRAMS, and not bin_SCRIPTS. That means --enable-no-install-program=groups

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Leo Butler wrote: -16 -2 -14 -5 1 1 0 0.3080808080808057 0 0.1540404040404028 0.3904338415207971 That should be fine. I have a dual processor machine, with each processor being an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, rated at 3GHz and cache 4096 kB, with 3.8GB total physical memory and 4GB swap space