bug#31055: Document ls -Ur -fr

2018-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
(info "(coreutils) Sorting the output") says ‘-r’ ‘--reverse’ Reverse whatever the sorting method is—e.g., list files in reverse alphabetical order, youngest first, smallest first, or whatever. OK but mention 'whatever' doesn't mean -U, -f, because they are sorted in "unsorted" order. I

bug#29069: bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/03/2018 12:29 PM, kalle wrote: But what do you think of my teaching concept, to try to explain why a `7' in `755' means =4+2+1=111=rwx="rwx for owner", which is assumed as self-evident or intuitive in both the original text and your patch? I think it's out of place in the coreutils manua

bug#31049: Bug found? Running in docker container on amazon ec2

2018-04-03 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 04/03/2018 06:16 PM, Matthew Fowkes wrote: >> root@4901abe58547:/app# tail -f /var/log/check* >> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for >> '/var/log/checkForClaimFiles.log'. please report this to >> bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Support for this file system type has

bug#29069: bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread kalle
hello, Am 03.04.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Paul Eggert: > Thanks for mentioning the problem. so you see a problem there too? However, I found the proposed rewrite > to be more confusing than the original. It may me that my way of building sentences is quite amendable. I'm not a native english write

bug#31049: Bug found? Running in docker container on amazon ec2

2018-04-03 Thread Matthew Fowkes
Just launched a new server on ec2 and received this message when trying to watch a log file: > root@4901abe58547:/app# tail -f /var/log/check* > tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for > '/var/log/checkForClaimFiles.log'. please report this to > bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to p

bug#29069: bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for mentioning the problem. However, I found the proposed rewrite to be more confusing than the original. I think part of the problem is that this is not really the place to explain octal notation; any reader who doesn't know octal before reading the manual is not likely to understand it

bug#31038: mv copies in ls -r order

2018-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK. Please on (info "(coreutils) cp invocation") at ‘-v’ ‘--verbose’ Print the name of each file before copying it. add: "(Note this reveals internal order of operations, often in ls -U order, thus occasionally appearing to be in ls, ls -t, ls -r, ls -rt etc. order.)" (I mean on the same pag

bug#31038: mv copies in ls -r order

2018-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/03/2018 09:37 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > OK maybe I was just looking at the latter half of > > $ sh O > /tmp > created directory '/var/tmp/y' > copied 'x/1' -> '/var/tmp/y/1' > copied 'x/2' -> '/var/tmp/y/2' > copied 'x/3' -> '/var/tmp/y/3' > copied 'x/4' -> '/var/tmp/y/4' > copied 'x/5'

bug#31038: mv copies in ls -r order

2018-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK maybe I was just looking at the latter half of $ sh O /tmp created directory '/var/tmp/y' copied 'x/1' -> '/var/tmp/y/1' copied 'x/2' -> '/var/tmp/y/2' copied 'x/3' -> '/var/tmp/y/3' copied 'x/4' -> '/var/tmp/y/4' copied 'x/5' -> '/var/tmp/y/5' copied 'x/6' -> '/var/tmp/y/6' copied 'x/7' -> '/v

bug#31045: split -e missing in split 8.4 version

2018-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
tag 31045 notabug thanks On 04/03/2018 05:59 AM, Abhijeet Patwari wrote: > Hi, > > I was using split 8.25 version. In my code, I have used split -e option. > After server upgrade, split also got upgraded and my code is giving error > at split -e. > > Kindly let me know what is the equivalent of

bug#31038: mv copies in ls -r order

2018-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
tag 31038 notabug thanks On 04/03/2018 02:52 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ mv -v dir1/* dir2 > reveals that mv works backwards, > copying in ls -r order. Not quite true. It copies the arguments in the order given on the command line (the * glob expands to a sorted list according to the current

bug#31045: split -e missing in split 8.4 version

2018-04-03 Thread Abhijeet Patwari
Hi, I was using split 8.25 version. In my code, I have used split -e option. After server upgrade, split also got upgraded and my code is giving error at split -e. Kindly let me know what is the equivalent of split -e in 8.4. OR any alternate solution for this. -- Regards, Abhijeet Patwari Mob.

bug#31043: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric, modes'

2018-04-03 Thread kalle
hello, below a patch proposal of mine. kalle >From b250dcdaba02083a0174d9157c655f0dbb586ef6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kalle Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:56:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] changed presentation in 'File permissions' in 'numeric modes' I described the numeric modes explaining it's octa

bug#31038: mv copies in ls -r order

2018-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
$ mv -v dir1/* dir2 reveals that mv works backwards, copying in ls -r order. Well OK, but why is that order better than the order of the arguments it was given?