bug#9334: sort bug

2011-08-22 Thread ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN
Thanks. I guess I misinterpreted "uses a default key of the entire line" as "uses the entire line as keys by default", in which case if the first column was equal, it would compare the second, then the third, etc. I guess I don't know what "default key of the entire line" means with respect to -n

bug#9334: sort bug

2011-08-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/22/2011 07:47 AM, ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN wrote: Thanks. I guess I misinterpreted "uses a default key of the entire line" as "uses the entire line as keys by default", in which case if the first column was equal, it would compare the second, then the third, etc. I guess I don't know what

bug#9344: about the command of 'cat'

2011-08-22 Thread 博高
Hello: I am a user of ubuntu 10.04.2.While I am trying to use 'cat' to display a binary file.Every letter on my display goes wrong yours GB from China

bug#9344: about the command of 'cat'

2011-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 9344 + notabug thanks 博高 wrote: > Hello: > I am a user of ubuntu 10.04.2.While I am trying to use 'cat' to > display a binary file.Every letter on my display goes wrong > yours GB from China The 'cat' program copies each file to standard output concatenating files. It is working

bug#9344: about the command of 'cat'

2011-08-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/22/2011 08:21 PM, 博高 wrote: > Hello: > I am a user of ubuntu 10.04.2.While I am trying to use 'cat' to > display a binary file.Every letter on my display goes wrong > yours GB from China There was probably a character sequence in the binary file to put your terminal into an alter

bug#9346: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)

2011-08-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html says: STDOUT By default, the standard output shall contain an entry for each input file of the form: "%d %d %d %s\n", , , , But wc from GNU coreutils 8.12 adds spaces: $ echo | wc 1 0 1 Setting

bug#9346: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)

2011-08-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
tags 9346 + notabug On 08/23/2011 01:39 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html > says: > > STDOUT > > By default, the standard output shall contain an entry for each > input file of the form: > > "%d %d %d %s\n", , , , > >

bug#9346: wc does not conform to POSIX (additional spaces)

2011-08-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/22/2011 07:07 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: tags 9346 + notabug On 08/23/2011 01:39 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wc.html says: STDOUT By default, the standard output shall contain an entry for each input file of the form:

bug#9344: closed (Re: bug#9344: about the command of 'cat')

2011-08-22 Thread 博高
Thanks very much On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:17 AM, GNU bug Tracking System wrote: > Your bug report > > #9344: about the command of 'cat' > > which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed. > > The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. > If you require mor