Re: Human readable sort

2009-07-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I was thinking that the mixed IEC/SI check should be applied to each key separately rather than globally. What do you think? Patch attached. From ef06a30d122fc9ccac51a682a3abf6868d8832d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 ... -check_mixed_SI_IEC (char prefix) +check_mixed_SI_IEC

Re: README-prereq update

2009-07-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: automake-1.11 just went into Fedora 11 which started an interesting discussion :) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg02451.html Anyway I've updated the development prerequisites doc to be more general in the attached

Re: feature request: -0 option for tr

2009-07-02 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Craig Sandersc...@taz.net.au wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:13:15AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: The essential point though has already been made by Bob and Andreas; this causes failures for filenames which themselves contain newlines (all Unix-like

Re: add min and max to coreutils?

2009-07-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Joshua Bronson wrote: I was looking for a command line utility to get the min and max from a file (rather than the much less efficient sort | {head,tail} -1) and I couldn't find one. Someone on linuxquestions.org directed me toward the Generic Mapping Tools http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/, which

Re: feature request: add optional $DESTDIR support to install

2009-07-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Etienne Laurin wrote: Hello, By modifying install to support DESTDIR I was able to effortlessly create packages for many source distributions that do not support DESTDIR but use install. This patch adds the -P and --destdir options, which, if present, prefix their argument or the value

Re: README-prereq update

2009-07-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: automake-1.11 just went into Fedora 11 which started an interesting discussion :) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-June/msg02451.html Anyway I've updated the development prerequisites doc to be more general

Re: feature request: -0 option for tr

2009-07-02 Thread Craig Sanders
are you to stupid to understand the words fuck off? i have no interest in arguing with you. or communicating with you in any way. is it that important to you to revive debate over a proposal i abandoned three days ago just so your loser ego can have it's two cents worth? well, you know where

Re: [PATCH] tail: add comments noting potential inotify-related problems

2009-07-02 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Hi Jim, I took a look at the problems you reported. The first one is fixed with the first attached patch. I have tested it under Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686. tail -F works until the parent directory is not removed and it is very related to the second problem you showed. At this point I think the

Re: add min and max to coreutils?

2009-07-02 Thread Joshua Bronson
2009/7/2 Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com Joshua Bronson wrote: I was looking for a command line utility to get the min and max from a file (rather than the much less efficient sort | {head,tail} -1) and I couldn't find one. Someone on linuxquestions.org directed me toward the Generic