TL Mieszkowski wrote:
> I've needed to swap two filenames more than once,
> but no UNIX program I can find does it.
>
> The patch I've included works on two regular files,
> one regular file and a directory, but if you provide two
> directories or 1 directory first it trashes the first directory.
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 09:35:54 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> What distribution are you using (I'm guessing Fedora 10).
>> Distributions that patch coreutils really should
>> modify the version string accordingly.
>
> if coreutils wants distros to do that, it should really fac
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I've started to work on the stdbuf util referenced in this thread:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-11/threads.html#00134
>> I've a few questions...
>
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> Thanks for writing/posting that.
>
>> The main one is sho
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I've started to work on the stdbuf util referenced in this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-11/threads.html#00134
> I've a few questions...
Hi Pádraig,
Thanks for writing/posting that.
> The main one is should I introduce a dependency on libt
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Davide Canova wrote:
>> $ sort -k 1b,1b #1
>> a x
>> a y
>> a z
>> ^D
>> a z
>> a y
>> a x
>>
>> $ sort -k 1b,1.0b #2
>> a x
>> a y
>> a z
>> ^D
>> a x
>> a y
>> a z
>
> I'm confused by the first command output too.
> I'm not sure what the code is tryin
Pádraig Brady writes:
> Can someone at least confirm that we (should) interpret
> the "a x" input as having 2 fields, 'a' and ' x' ?
"A field comprises a maximal sequence of non-separating characters and,
in the absence of option −t, any preceding field separator."
Andreas.
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Andreas Sch
How about for symlinks: "When creating symbolic links, each TARGET path will
be resolved relative to the parent directory of the symbolic link when it is
accessed" below the "When creating hard links, each TARGET must exist."
text.
Is it too sutble that this may be a problem for relative paths? "
Good afternoon
What I have to say is a little bit... hard to believe.
But I think I found a "bug" in the Shell-Command "cp". The command goes into a
endless loop when I do the following:
1) Mount a partition with the filesystem "ext3" ("/media/EXT3drive")
2) Mount a partition with the filesyst
cp -a refuses to devolve the file mode when I copy a certain file
between two ext3 volumes
whereas it does not report any error:
> cat syncit
cp -a /home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap
/mnt/home-mirror/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap
echo $?
for i
