date command

2010-03-05 Thread Bernd Fehling
Hi all, while using the date command (date GNU coreutils 5.93) it reports e.g.: Fri Mar 5 13:01:52 UCT 2010 So why is it reporting UCT and not UTC ??? Is that a typo? Regards Bernd

Re: date command

2010-03-05 Thread Eric Blake
According to Bernd Fehling on 3/5/2010 6:04 AM: Hi all, while using the date command (date GNU coreutils 5.93) it reports e.g.: Fri Mar 5 13:01:52 UCT 2010 So why is it reporting UCT and not UTC ??? Is that a typo? Most likely, it is being inherited from $TZ in the environment: $

Re: date command

2010-03-05 Thread Bernd Fehling
Hi Erik, there is no TZ set. # date Fr Mär 5 13:59:12 UCT 2010 # date -u Fr Mär 5 13:59:18 UTC 2010 Lets see... OK, yes you are right its a typo in SuSe system setting: SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) tail /etc/sysconfig/clock ## Type:

bug with head

2010-03-05 Thread François Civet
Dear bug reporter, I found a bug with the head command. while opening an ACSII file with the command: head file * the interface of my gnome-terminal shows non-ASCII characters. my PC is under ubuntu 8.10 if you need some other information... please tell me with kind regards François Civet --

Re: bug with head

2010-03-05 Thread Eric Blake
According to François Civet on 3/5/2010 7:24 AM: Dear bug reporter, I found a bug with the head command. while opening an ACSII file with the command: head file * This command passes the name of all files in the current directory, including any binary files. the interface of my

Re: you are not going to be able to sort this by the fifth field.

2010-03-05 Thread jidanni
EB Except that you can specify overlapping keys. I find the idea of multiple EB separate lines of underscores, one per key, much easier to follow in OK, any --debug=... is better than nothing.

Re: install not atomic

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 28 February 2010 03:35:19 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello bug-coreutils readers, a recent GCC bug report[1] the GNU install program is not atomic; i.e., when you install file $dest install file $dest then one of them may fail. For reproducability purposes, use several large

[PATCH] rm --directory (-d)

2010-03-05 Thread pwplusnick2
Hello again, I have finally completed my --directory (-d) feature, like the FreeBSD one. The directory option deletes a directory only if the directory in question is empty. This is a safer alternative to the recursive option is some cases where you don't want to delete unempty directories. I