bug#8993: head -n

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Miroslav Karlovsky wrote: > head-n produce sometimes to much empty lines s.d. > One limiting for highest 2 lines (maximum) are forcing. > > html2text -ascii $i | head -n$zZ >> ZZ-line.txt In bug#8994 now merged with 8993: > My replenishment to head -n resolf to minimum of the lines are 8. This >

bug#8462: problem not yet solved

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
RAMON PITARG MARTI wrote: > I have a 10.4 Ubuntu, I am a beginner in this OS, and I am happy by > the changed do by Microsoft to Linux/ubuntu, but I want to install de > program for avoid the Taxes document for the year 2010, and went sas > discharged, the program not ist install. Your previous mes

bug#8372: date - Summer Time Shift Problem.

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Please see this FAQ entry for detailed explanation and hints on how to > avoid this problem. > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e Since there hasn't been any feedback on this bug since March I assume that the answers pr

bug#9191: dd does not use the given block size > 2GB

2011-07-28 Thread Ole Tange
Hi Coreutils. $ ./dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=2G gives the following in 'top': 23182 tange 20 0 2058m 2.0g 616 R 100 25.8 0:25.13 dd So it actively uses 2 G. This is exactly what I would expect. However, if I use 10G it mallocs 10 G but only uses 2 G: $ ./dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev

bug#9187: du feature request

2011-07-28 Thread Eric Blake
tag 9187 notabug thanks On 07/27/2011 08:06 PM, Hugh Esco wrote: perhaps I just need to learn the right switches to apply to sort on the other side of a pipe, but I have often wanted to sort the results of du in descending order and have it get it how to parse the -s(ummary) -h (uman) readable o

bug#9187: du feature request

2011-07-28 Thread Hugh Esco
perhaps I just need to learn the right switches to apply to sort on the other side of a pipe, but I have often wanted to sort the results of du in descending order and have it get it how to parse the -s(ummary) -h (uman) readable output. So instead of: $ du -sh /var/log/* 28K /var/log/apt