bug#34026: mention that long options aren't always as good as short options

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34026 wishlist retitle 34026 doc: explain long-vs-short options stop Hello, On 2019-01-09 9:23 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Yes do warn in the manual, as here root (so no $HOME) expected tilde expansion... Thanks. I'm marking this as a wish-list item. If we are to add a section ded

bug#32291: Fwd: ls -ltcr and ls -lrt report different modification dates

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32291 notabug close 32291 stop Hello, Seems your message was not replied to in 6 months - sorry about that. On 2018-07-27 3:48 a.m., Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote: `ls -ltcr` seems to be the one showing the correct date here. I like to use `ls -ltc` because it's my initials. My colleag

bug#20775: cp -a -u destroys files after they are copied

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 20775 wishlist retitle 20775 cp: improve hardlink dups handling with "cp -a -u" stop With no further comments in more than 3 years, I'm marking this as a "wish list" item. -assaf

bug#34009: warn that mkdir --mode doesn't affect parents created

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34009 wishlist retitle 34009 doc: mkdir: warn that --mode doesn't affect parents stop Hello, On 2019-01-07 8:36 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: do warn that --mode doesn't affect any parents created. $ mkdir --mode 700 -p /tmp/g/h/i $ find /tmp/g -ls 55795 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 ji

bug#22022: ls - error making symbolic links with relative paths

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 22022 ln: error making symbolic links with relative paths tags 22022 notabug close 22022 stop Hello, On 2015-11-26 9:13 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: [...] You may be interested in trying 'ln --relative -sv b/* c/' instead, which creates 'c/a' as a symlink to '../b/a', and therefore resolves

bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if one of files is a dir and other not

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 15727 wishlist retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest stop Hello, On 2013-10-29 12:20 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: [...] You need to make the docs much more clear about "cp"s limitations. update isn't eally update, and -T is certainly wrong at the very least. 

bug#15328: Bug or dubious feature?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15328 notabug close 15328 stop Hello, On 2013-09-10 3:01 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: Whatever the problem is, it's not in 'mv'... Given the above, and no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this item. regards, - assaf

bug#33204: Failed to modify 'Access Time' for files without extension using the Touch tool ver 8.4

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 33204 stop Hello, On 2018-10-31 7:10 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 10/30/18 3:49 AM, ˮ��֮�� wrote: HI,Dear developer of GNU tools:   I found a possible bug when using the Touch tool. Most likely, this is not a bug in coreutils, but a limitation between the operating system and file s

bug#29285: Error building coreutils 8.28.32-a4eed under Archlinux from AUR

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 29285 stop On 2018-10-29 8:09 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2017-11-13 7:43 a.m., timofonic timofonic wrote: As the coreutils build system reported, I'm sending the following building error from using the coreutils-git Arch User Repository package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cor

bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 25159 stop On 2018-10-28 1:35 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote: Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi. [...] chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ': Operation not permitted If this is still an issue for you, can yo

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Berny and all, On 2018-11-29 1:48 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: The attached are quite raw attempts to address this - yes, as a function instead of a macro. ;-) * [PATCH] long-options: add parse_gnu_standard_options_only gnulib patch! For the gnulib patch, I believe the following is