bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

2017-01-28 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Eggert wrote: L A Walsh wrote: The idea would be to have it be transparent. Adding on various output filters is hardly transparent. Nor is having behavior depend on environment variables. --- The behavior isn't dependent on environment variables. The behavior is selected by

bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

2017-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
L A Walsh wrote: The idea would be to have it be transparent. Adding on various output filters is hardly transparent. Nor is having behavior depend on environment variables. As for env-vars. What problems are you envisioning. Shell scripts might stop working because the environment

bug#25567: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘letsencrypt.log’

2017-01-28 Thread kinguru
tail -f letsencrypt.log tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for ‘letsencrypt.log’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

2017-01-28 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Eggert wrote: L A Walsh wrote: I'm working on some loose ends, but basically, First, it would default to providing no change. ;-) Through use of a switch it can expand the tabs to spaces using a default of every 8th column (after 1) (using a switch value of 'ExpandTo'). And with 2 env

bug#25560: Alphabetic Character Following date -d

2017-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/28/2017 12:15 AM, Owen Leibman wrote: > Testing a script to see how it handled invalid data, I had it execute the > command: > date -d "x023-04-05 01:00" > Somewhat surprisingly, this was not treated as an error. The response was: > Tue Apr 4 06:07:02 LMT 0023 > > This happened on a Ubuntu

bug#25553: How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?

2017-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
L A Walsh wrote: I'm working on some loose ends, but basically, First, it would default to providing no change. ;-) Through use of a switch it can expand the tabs to spaces using a default of every 8th column (after 1) (using a switch value of 'ExpandTo'). And with 2 env vars, TTY_TABSIZE & TT

bug#25560: Alphabetic Character Following date -d

2017-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Owen Leibman wrote: Is the date command behaving as it should for all these examples? Those letters are military time zone abbreviations, so yes.