Re: [PATCH] maint: use a wildcard to include all syntax check exceptions in dist

2009-06-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I noticed a couple of syntax check exception files missing from the distribution tarball. Specifically .x-sc_require_config_h_first and .x-sc_error_message_uppercase The attached patch changes things so we don't have to maintain the list. Good catch. I've suspected

Re: wish: cp: output some sort of message if copying was interrupted

2009-06-05 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Yes that will be a good solution for the usage of cp within shell scripts. However in most cases I invoke cp directly via the command line so that it is somehow awkward and very easy to forget having to issue always an extra command that tests for

[egg...@cs.ucla.edu: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order]

2009-06-05 Thread Martin Sarfy
Hello, attached there is a patch against coreutils-6.10/sort.c implementing Natural order sorting (e.g. A1 A2 A10), using -N parameter. Please, consider it's inclusion in upstream :-) Signing papers with copyright is not a problem. Best regards, Martin Sarfy - Forwarded message from

Re: wish: cp: output some sort of message if copying was interrupted

2009-06-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Philip Rowlands schrieb: On Sun, 24 May 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: If I issue a 'cp -a' on one konsole and a 'killall -s SIGINT cp' on another konsole cp -a will terminate just as if it had finished copying. Not quite; the exit status passed to the calling process will show the

Re: wish: cp: output some sort of message if copying was interrupted

2009-06-05 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Philip Rowlands schrieb: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Yes that will be a good solution for the usage of cp within shell scripts. However in most cases I invoke cp directly via the command line so that it is somehow awkward and very easy to forget having to issue always an

Re: [egg...@cs.ucla.edu: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order]

2009-06-05 Thread Pádraig Brady
Martin Sarfy wrote: Hello, attached there is a patch against coreutils-6.10/sort.c implementing Natural order sorting (e.g. A1 A2 A10), using -N parameter. Please, consider it's inclusion in upstream :-) Signing papers with copyright is not a problem. Best regards, Martin Sarfy

Re: [egg...@cs.ucla.edu: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order]

2009-06-05 Thread Martin Sarfy
You are right, -V is exactly the same algorithm. The moral of the story is that next time I will patch against latest greatest source code version :-) Have a nice day Martin On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:43:05PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Thanks very much for that. However I think this