Hi there,
I use tail 5.3.0 in Windows 7. It works fine unless I try to follow a file.
Here is my --version output:
C:\tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is
On 11/26/2010 12:44 AM, Johan Pretorius wrote:
I use tail 5.3.0 in Windows 7.
Hmm, that's rather old. I suggest upgrading to a more-recent
version before investigating further. The current version is 8.7.
Also, you might try reporting the bug to whoever built it on Windows
rather than to
All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
--example
Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
functioning as a reminder.
This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
R has a command example(9, which is invokes as
example(fun)
and then runs
Sent too bug-coreutils too (no bug id currently AFAICT).
Bug only affects multi-byte locales. Take the following samples:
bash-4.1# zcat cracklib-words-20080507.gz | sort -u --debug file
echo $?
sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules
Segmentation fault
bash-4.1# echo $?
139
bash-4.1#
On 11/26/2010 08:47 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
All the GNU coreutils commands should accept a new flag:
--example
Which should print a (half)screenfull of instructive examples,
functioning as a reminder.
This idea is taken from the project Gnu R (www.r-project.org).
R has a command
Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately,
I cannot reproduce the problem with coreutils 8.7, either on
RHEL 5.5 x86-64 or on Ubuntu 10.10 x86.
Which version of coreutils are you running? And on what
platform? How did you build it?
Can you reproduce it with --parallel=2? If not, which value
On 11/26/2010 05:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately,
I cannot reproduce the problem with coreutils 8.7, either on
RHEL 5.5 x86-64 or on Ubuntu 10.10 x86.
Which version of coreutils are you running?
8.7. Haven't tested on 8.6 or 8.5. 8.4 worked correctly,
On 26/11/10 18:01, DJ Lucas wrote:
Sent too bug-coreutils too (no bug id currently AFAICT).
Bug only affects multi-byte locales. Take the following samples:
bash-4.1# zcat cracklib-words-20080507.gz | sort -u --debug file
echo $?
sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules
