Re: Bug#463043: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: coreutils problem]

2008-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, A new version of libselinux has been uploaded to incoming. This is still 2.0.35, thee last release, and not the CVS head of 2.0.49 in rawhide, but I do think the bug will be soon fixed. manoj -- Memories of you remind me of you. Karl Lehenbauer Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL

Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Marc Perkel
When using tail with the -c option it would be handy to be able to specify not just bytes but K, M, and G bytes Example: tail -c 5K should output the last 5K bytes. my 2 cents ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using tail with the -c option it would be handy to be able to specify not just bytes but K, M, and G bytes Example: tail -c 5K should output the last 5K bytes. Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. The stable

Re: Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Bert Wesarg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 10:41 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53 It

Re: Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53 However, this was never mentioned in NEWS. Is it worth adding

Re: Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53 However, this was never mentioned in NEWS. Is it worth adding (retroactively)? -- Eric Blake

Re: Suggestion about tail

2008-02-07 Thread Bert Wesarg
On Feb 7, 2008 10:41 PM, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53 It looks like there was a typo in this

Re: Feature request: rm option that supports trash (plain text)

2008-02-07 Thread Wilfred
On 06/02/2008, Steve Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 12:59 PM, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wilfred wrote: It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a 'safer' option for

Re: Feature request: rm option that supports trash (plain text)

2008-02-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Wilfred wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mkdir testdel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ alias del='mv --verbose --backup=simple --suffix=$(date +.(%F_%T)) --target-directory=$HOME/.Trash/' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ del testdel mv: accessing `/home/wilfred/.Trash/': No such file or directory Right. You would

piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-07 Thread Bob van Loosen
Hi everyone, Whenever I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d | dd bs=1 I get no output, but when I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. Greetings, Bob van Loosen.

Re: piping tail -f through cut

2008-02-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob van Loosen wrote: Whenever I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d | dd bs=1 I get no output, but when I do this: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | cut -f 8- -d I do get output, I'm using coreutils 5.97 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit. What you are seeing are the effects of