bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Schulte
Hello! Paul Eggert wrote: > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some > > scripts, so it's probably best to document it. > > I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a > operator are already broken, and we should phase it o

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-21 Thread Martin Schulte
Hello again! Paul Eggert wrote: > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some > > scripts, so it's probably best to document it. > > I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a > operator are already broken, and we should phas

bug#14456: Stat I18N problem with the format string.

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 14456 wishlist retitle 14456 multibyte: stat's %[X] counts bytes instead of characters stop Hello, On 20/10/18 12:40 PM, Errembault Philippe wrote: This has absolutely nothing to do with a translation problem. It is related with the I18N string processing. As you can see, the line with

bug#14703: stat no creation date on ntfs filesystem files which have creation dates

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14703 notabug close 14703 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 24/06/13 03:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/24/2013 03:57 PM, Enda wrote: When I use stat, there is no creation date on ntfs filesystem files which have creation dates: $ stat file.txt ... So the issue here is that there

bug#14725: Documentation Bug: date

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14725 fixed close 14725 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, Jon Hartman wrote: Should the -I (capital I) not be listed in the documentation? This has historically presented the international format. It seems your message was lost and never replied to. Sorry about that. In the meantime since

bug#14768: portage build of sys-apps/coreutils-8.20 fails tests

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14768 moreinfo close 14768 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/07/13 11:40 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Does the following patch work, when applied to gnulib-tests/test-getlogin.c? If so, the bug is already fixed upstream. If not, please run test-getlogin under GDB and see why it's failing.

bug#14832: bug hostid

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14832 moreinfo close 14832 stop (triaging old bugs) On 09/07/13 07:43 AM, MOQUET Alain wrote: Hello, i have a serveur with rhel6.2 the commande "hosted" return "". With no further comments or follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. If this is still an issue, please reply to

bug#14846: dd how to skip one byte from reading the man page

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14846 notabug severity 14846 wishlist retitle 14846 doc: dd: improve ibs=BYTES description stop (triaging old bugs) On 12/07/13 10:49 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/12/2013 12:50 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: it seems ibs=BYTES read up to BYTES bytes at a time (de

bug#14852: Fwd: mv fails when trying to overwrite a file in a (map) network drive

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14852 notabug close 14852 stop (triaging old bugs) On 23/07/13 10:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Lluis faixó wrote: [...] It complains: mv: cannot move `file1' to `file2': File exists 1) Are the 2 files on the same drive? 2) Are one or both on a remote system (sounds like t

bug#16803: @kbd for long option names?

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 16803 fixed close 16803 stop (triaging old bugS) Hello Karl, On 18/02/14 11:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Karl Berry wrote: I'm happy to send a patch to remove all the @kbd's if you'll accept it, but I imagine you had a reason to insert them in the first place. Beats me as to why they're t

bug#16782: Insensitive behavior in date when given invalid fomatting string

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 16782 wishlist retitle 16782 date: reject invalid %[X] format characters stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/02/14 10:42 AM, f...@fuz.su wrote: Consider the following set of date invocations: $ date +%05 00%05 $ date +%Y%#05 20140%#05 $ date +x%7 x

bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19456 wontfix severity 19456 wishlist retitle 19456 touch: add -v, --verbose option close 19456 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 28/12/14 09:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: >> It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please >

bug#19544: RFE: please fix limited dd output control (want xfer stats, but not blocks).

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19544 fixed close 19544 stop (triaging old bugs) On 09/01/15 04:18 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > The blocks are a bit uninteresting: > > 15+0 records out > --- > > Tells me nothing -- not size of recs, nor time.. nothing interesting. > > What I'd rather see: > > 327680 bytes (328 KB) copied, 0

bug#19530: Solaris 10 df and zfs

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 19530 wishlist retitle 19530 df: accommodate Solaris 10/zfs reporting munged sizes stop (triaging old bugs) On 07/01/15 06:18 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/01/15 22:13, Ted Carr wrote: # df -h /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Filesystem size used avail capacity

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

2018-10-21 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 19503 wishlist tags 19503 wontfix close 19503 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 04/01/15 08:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/01/15 11:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Just now I noticed that 'du --version | tail -2' produces here this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund)

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-21 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 10/21/18 2:09 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a operator > are > already broken, and we should phase it out. Not that anybody actually *uses* > coreutils "test -a". Done with the attached 1st patch. The 2nd patch is a cleanup avoidi

bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output

2018-10-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I get the following with ls (GNU coreutils) 8.30. zira% touch a=b a=b\&c zira% ls a=b* 'a=b' 'a=b&c' zira% ls -b a=b* a=b a=b&c zira% ls -F a=b* 'a=b' 'a=b&c' zira% ls -bF a=b* a\=b a\=b&c AFAIK, the = character is not a shell metacharacter (except with zsh but only in the first position), th

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

2018-10-21 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Hi Assaf, On 10/20/18 1:09 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hi Bernhard, > > On 19/10/18 04:56 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 10/19/18 10:48 PM, Martin Schulte wrote: >> >> The '-a FILE' primary is supported since "the beginning", and even the >> POSIX spec mentions this unlucky thing: > [...] >> I d