Re: a fix for color ls with wrapped lines.

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2008-12-31 13:06, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>> You have to use a long filename (not just z.foo) that wraps in the >>> terminal. See the video at >>> http://jengelh.medozas.de/files/coreutils7ls.ogv for details. >>> Version used was v7.0-114-g921feef. >>> >>> Sta

Re: date

2008-12-31 Thread Jeremy M. Guthrie
Ah, that explains it! Thanks. On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jeremy M. Guthrie wrote: > > I have found a bug with 'date', it will jump a year the last few days of > > the year. > > Thank you for your report. But the behavior you are reporting is not > a bug but a misunderstan

Re: date

2008-12-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeremy M. Guthrie wrote: > I have found a bug with 'date', it will jump a year the last few days of the > year. Thank you for your report. But the behavior you are reporting is not a bug but a misunderstanding of the date format specifications. > #The actual time/date > [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthri

date

2008-12-31 Thread Jeremy M. Guthrie
I have found a bug with 'date', it will jump a year the last few days of the year. #The actual time/date [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthrie 10:09am]~-> date Wed Dec 31 10:09:34 CST 2008 #It thinks it's 2009. It did this yesterday and the day before. [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthrie 10:09am]~-> date "+%m-%d-%

Re: a fix for color ls with wrapped lines.

2008-12-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2008-12-31 13:06, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> You have to use a long filename (not just z.foo) that wraps in the >> terminal. See the video at >> http://jengelh.medozas.de/files/coreutils7ls.ogv for details. >> Version used was v7.0-114-g921feef. >> >> Standard ./configure and (slightly

Re: chown and bash trashed part of system

2008-12-31 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Vincent Chapman wrote: I understand, but there are still incosistancies in the unix world of shells. Try this and you'll understand how one(I) could make this mistake. $ sudo bash echo .* . .. .hidden_files in zsh $ sudo zsh echo .* .hidden_files This output is presuma

Re: chown and bash trashed part of system

2008-12-31 Thread Vincent Chapman
I understand, but there are still incosistancies in the unix world of shells. Try this and you'll understand how one(I) could make this mistake. $ sudo bash echo .* . .. .hidden_files in zsh $ sudo zsh echo .* .hidden_files zsh would not have accended into the parent directories. Bash will.

Re: stat signed/unsigned

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Meskes wrote: > I just received a bug report against an old stat version but also looked into > the up-to-date (6.10) one that fixed most of it. However, I wonder whether > line > 550 in stat.c > > out_int (pformat, prefix_len, statfsbuf->f_files); > > should better be > > out_uint (pform

stat signed/unsigned

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, I just received a bug report against an old stat version but also looked into the up-to-date (6.10) one that fixed most of it. However, I wonder whether line 550 in stat.c out_int (pformat, prefix_len, statfsbuf->f_files); should better be out_uint (pformat, prefix_len, statfsbuf->f_files)

Re: a fix for color ls with wrapped lines.

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2008-12-30 21:47, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >>Thanks for the follow-up. >>I've just tried to reproduce the problem using the latest >>version of ls, invoked from a linux vt, then xterm, aterm and rxvt >>windows. Each time, I did this in an empty directory: >> >> s

Re: sort of new branch: next

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I've pushed a few changes to a new "next" branch. >> I expect to rebase it against master. >> >> $ g shortlog HEAD ^master >> build: use dist-xz, not dist-lzma >> cleanup/modernize: don't test HAVE_MBRTOWC; now gnulib provides it >>