* tests/misc/shuf.sh: Test valid "shuf -i" edge cases that result
in a single line of input, or no line at all. Test an invalid
range, too.
---
tests/misc/shuf.sh | 11 ++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tests/misc/shuf.sh b/tests/misc/shuf.sh
index 892386b3
* doc/coreutils.texi (shut invocation): Mention valid and invalid
edge cases for --input-range.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 5 -
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index ea040458e..f59c5e962 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/do
Hi Paul,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 09:29:04AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 6/24/21 11:49 PM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > $ shuf -i 2-0 ; echo %exit code $?
> > shuf: invalid input range: ‘2-0’
> > %exit code 1
> > $ shuf -i 1-0 ; echo %exit code $?
>
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 08:54:43AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 08:49:51AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:19:36PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > On 6/24/21 4:46 PM, F8ER F8ER wrote:
> > > >For example,
"shuf -i 1-0" would mistakenly accept the invalid range
without an error message and produce no output. Other
invalid ranges, e.g., "shuf -i 2-0", would be detected
and produce an error message, non-zero exit code, and
no output.
Bug reported by "F8ER F8ER."
* src/shuf.c (main): Fix bug.
* tests
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 08:49:51AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:19:36PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 6/24/21 4:46 PM, F8ER F8ER wrote:
> > >For example, `shuf -i 101-100 -n 1` returns nothing with the exit code
> > >= 0 (unexpecte
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:19:36PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 6/24/21 4:46 PM, F8ER F8ER wrote:
> >For example, `shuf -i 101-100 -n 1` returns nothing with the exit code
> >= 0 (unexpected).
>
> Actually, it's the expected behavior. It's the same behavior as
> 'shuf -n 1 exactly 1 line";
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 09:26:28AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On (info "(coreutils) seq invocation") we read
>Be careful when using ‘seq’ with outlandish values: otherwise you
>may...
>
> Here's another 'fun/sad/DDOS yourself' example you might add:
>
> One day I wrote a Makefi
POSIX specifies that pr -f shall "[p]ause before beginning the first
page if the standard output is associated with a terminal" (see
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pr.html).
GNU pr does not do this.
[The recently reported bug#47243
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bu
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 08:53:03PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
> I thought to display 0 (or 0) for 1st arg by doing:
>
> du -BY, as -B says I can list a unit for scaling, but for
> -BY and -BZ I get:
> du: -B argument 'Y' too large.
>
> It doesn't even look to see how much space is used, it
> im
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:28:18AM +0200, Grigoriy Sokolik wrote:
> I've rechecked:
I cannot reproduce the problem, the certificate is trusted by my system:
# via IPv4
$ gnutls-cli --verbose translationproject.org [...]issuer `CN=DST Root CA X3,O=Digital Signature Trust Co.'[...
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:04:21PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 14/02/2021 19:22, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> >May I ask you to test the new patch (v4) as well?
>
> This version looks good.
> I'll probably apply this after a little more local testing.
Thanks!
Hi,
On 13.02.21 21:28, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 21:15 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On 13.02.21 19:29, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
[...]
That being said, I don't see this exact distinction reflected in
the
code, so perhaps I just misunderstood.
Disa
Hi,
On 13.02.21 19:29, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
first: Thank you very much for the work, I really owe you one!
You're welcome. :-)
On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 17:58 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On 13.02.21 15:17, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On 11.02.21 20:20, Erik Auerswald wrote:
O
Hi,
On 13.02.21 15:17, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On 11.02.21 20:20, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König
wrote:
On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert
König
On 11.02.21 20:20, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert
König wrote:
On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 13:00 +0100, Erik
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert
> > König wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 13:00 +0100, Erik Aue
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
> I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr
> doesn't get the alignment of tabs in multicolumn output right.
> [...]
> This seems *kind* of related to multi-column merged output, as was
> discu
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
> I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr
> doesn't get the alignment of tabs in multicolumn output right.
> [...]
> Unfortunately the POSIX spec is, in my reading, a bit unclear here.
I do
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote:
> I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr
> doesn't get the alignment of tabs in multicolumn output right.
>
> Consider the following test input, where everything from x->x is a tab
> (with
Hi Dan,
On 23.01.21 22:13, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
I hereby propose "ls --limit=..."
$ ls --limit=1 # Would only print one result item:
A
You might say:
"Jacobson, just use "ls|sed q". Closed: Worksforme."
Ah, but I am talking about items, not lines:
You can use the ls option '-1' to print
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 11:41:44AM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2020/11/04 08:09, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> >Please see
> >https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-usage-in-scripts
> >for an expl
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 07:27:17AM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
> Rewriting this bug as the other one, apparently, was too unclear
> to be understood.
>
> This gives an example, two in fact.
>
>
> On 2020/11/03 14:48, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >On 11/3/20 6:29 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> >>I trie
Hi John,
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 06:52:04PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
> The purpose of "df" is to show "disk free". Hence any filesystems that
> are read-only or which are FUSE-mounted one on of the local physical
> filesystems, or similar things (what others?) should be suppressed by
> default.
The
Hi all,
On 30.05.20 05:18, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:56:20PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/11/19 11:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
if you want to exclude nested file systems like that,
you could try:
alias df='df -x squashfs'
On my Fedora 30 workstation that opt
Hi,
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 01:01:05PM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Thursday, May 28, 2020 11:02:43 AM CEST Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 08:48:16AM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > > It is the underscore in the .x86_64 suffix what breaks the version compa
Hi,
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 08:48:16AM +0200, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 2:07:32 PM CEST Danie de Jager via GNU coreutils
> Bug Reports wrote:
> >
> > I use sort -Vr to sort version numbers. I noticed this discrepancy on
> > the latest kernel version from Centos 7.8.
> >
>
Hi,
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 02:07:32PM +0200, Danie de Jager via GNU coreutils Bug
Reports wrote:
> I use sort -Vr to sort version numbers. I noticed this discrepancy on
> the latest kernel version from Centos 7.8.
>
> command to get output:
> # ls -t /boot/vmlinuz-* | sed "s/\/boot\/vmlinuz-//g
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:04:11PM +0530, vardhaman narasagoudar wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:51 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 11/20/19 6:22 AM, Martin Schulte wrote:
> > > vardhamanbn1 is a valid encoding
> >
> > Thanks for explaining; closing the bug report.
>
> Thanks for replying t
Hi Ricky,
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 01:23:31PM +0300, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> Component under* Linux Fedora*: coreutils.x86_64 8.31-2.fc30 @updates
>
> Changes set are no applied to a locally plugged external device
Perhaps the external device's filesystem does not support Unix access
controls. Per
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:05:05PM -0600, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 7/29/19 1:28 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > > + if (rename_errno == ENOTEMPTY || rename_errno == EEXIST)
> > > +{
> > > + error (0, 0, _("canno
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/28/19 10:20 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and
> > both mandatory in --iso-8601 ?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you're proposing, specifically. Can you
> say
Hi,
On 3/3/19 09:40, L A Walsh wrote:
On 3/2/2019 11:31 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
But regardless of that it does not change the fact that the entire
purpose of read-only directories is to prevent removing and renaming
of files within them.
But not by the user owning them.
The ratio
Hi,
On 3/2/19 07:18, Bob Proulx wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
For their own reasons, the Go maintainers have decided the user Go cache
will now be read-only.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27161#issuecomment-433098406
That means cleaning up cache artefacts with rm does not work anymore
htt
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 06:32:55PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
> I have a bunch of files numbered from 1-over 2000 without leading zeros
> (think rfc's)...
> They have names with a non-numeric prefix & suffix around the number.
Are prefix and suffix constant? RFC files are usually named rfc${NR}.
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 04:36:44AM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:24 AM L A Walsh wrote:
>
> > In the case of creating a link to a directory there is
> > no choice in creating a "working solution". If you want a link
> > there, it HAS to be a symlink. That the user w
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 07/14/2018 07:51 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> > Paul Eggert wrote:
> >> On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> >>> I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are
> >>> wrong and do nothing useful? Why not
Hi Jewsco,
did you already try the -F option instead of -f?
Thanks,
Erik
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 03:46:27PM +, Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote:
> Padraig, thanks for your response,
>
> The ---disable-inotify didn't refresh either.
>
> [root@cmilsbtest03 ~]# stat -f -c '%t %T' /media/samba/test.
Hi Ben,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 05:56:07AM +, Benny D. Miller Jr. wrote:
> I am not so sure that this is a bug but a limitation. I am using
> "du" for a disk file listing/usage in the command:
>
> du --all --time --human-readable --apparent-size $1;
You did not specify any problems with the
Hi Tobias,
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 03:48:27PM +, Martens, Tobias wrote:
> echo "-(1)^2" | bc
> 1
>
> I would have expected -1. This behavior is unmathematical and very
> confusing, because otherwise bc acts quite logic.
bc did exactly what you asked it to do. You probably meant to write:
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:44:06AM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 06:31 PM, Al Mamun wrote:
> > I was trying to "su - nonrootuser" but it returns incorrect password but
> > the password is ok and I can login from ssh. Everything is good with root.
> > Only the non-root user is
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 03:33:29AM +0100, William Di Luigi wrote:
> if I understand it correctly, chown clears the setuid bit for security
> reasons (since, when changing the owner or group for a file, you could
> potentially be allowing *new people* to run that file as root).
>
> While this
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:28:13PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/26/2015 04:52 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> >> Because every plain
> >> text line in a file must be terminated with a newline.
> >
> >That's only a recent POSIX definition. It's not related to
> > real life. When I lo
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:13:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > This works on a current Debian/testing system (stable as well), so it might
> > be a recent Debian/Sid (unstable) issue. Perhaps you want to open a bug
> > report there?
>
> Upd
Hi Dan,
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:14:41AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> (info "(coreutils) who invocation") says
>
> If given no non-option arguments, ‘who’ prints the following
> information for each user currently logged on: login name, terminal
> line, login time, and remote hostname or X
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:35:06AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
> >an explicit "Inf" keyword is still better than some number that
> >relies on system limits
>
> With the latest patch, there are no system limits; you can use as
> big a
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 08:58:01PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >Also base64 -w0 has similar meaning.
>
> I didn't know that, but I don't like that either. Utilities should
> use an explicit representation for infinity, if that's what they
> need. 'Inf', say.
>
> In t
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 02:35:17AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> On 6/30/2015 12:46 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> >
> >>>du -sh *|sort -h|tail
> >Why not use 'du -shc * | sort -h | tail -n11'?
> >The total produced by du will sort after all the
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:28:09AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I admit the ability to show a summary line might not bethe first
> thing you'd think a pure-sorting utility might do, but it would be
> awfully handy if sort had a 'Numeric sum' option ("-N" -- preferred
> '-s', but it's already ta
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 10:51:59AM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-06-08 11:16:37 +0200, Erik Auerswald:
> [...]
> > FWIW I use 'sort' to sort IPv4 addresses in my ping_scan[1] script.
> >
> > The info documentation for sort provides another example,
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:57:33PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/05/2015 01:35 PM, Silverman, Jeffrey X. -ND wrote:
>
> >> This was previously discussed, and while has merit
> >> at the time it was thought not important enough to add:
> >>
> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/reject
Hi,
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:17:34PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-05-11 23:50:25 +0200, Jo Drexl (FFGR-IT):
> > Hi guys,
> > I had to write a Windows bat file for twentysomething users and - as
> > Linux geek - wrote a small Bash script for it. The code in question is
> > as follows:
>
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:10:52AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 10:31 AM, Joseph Piette wrote:
> > When transferring files from the Windows environment to the Linux
> > environment we execute a script to remove the \cr characters. The script
> > performs a simple
> >
> > tr -d '
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:07:50PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 02:45 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > ln [OPTIONS] EXISTING NEW
>
> I stilll think this is a translation issue.
> And I don't think the synopsis has to look the same as for
> cp and mv. If you really want it to be ch
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:45:02PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 17/04/15 12:45, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:12:01PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >> On 04/17/2015 10:39 AM, Ma Jiehong wrote:
> >>> Currently, 'cp', 'mv&#
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:12:01PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 10:39 AM, Ma Jiehong wrote:
> >Currently, 'cp', 'mv' and 'ln' share the same basic syntax, that is to say
> >the following:
> >
> >cp [OPTION] SOURCE DEST
> >mv [OPTION] SOURCE DEST
> >ln [OPTIONS] TARGET LINK_NAME
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:12:51AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/01/2014 10:56 AM, Chema F. Ledesma wrote:
> >
> > If you execute echo "" it does something strange
> > repeating the last command before echo comand.
>
> Thanks for the report. However, this is not a
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 08:53:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 04:50 AM, Tormen wrote:
> >
> > I think I just found a bug in chown... \o/ ;)
> >
> > I tried:
> > chown 1001: /tmp/bla
> >
> > Leading to:
> > chown: invalid spec: `1001:'
>
> Drop the trailing colon.
>
>
Hello Axel,
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Axel Spallek wrote:
> the following throw errors:
>
> dirname --to-0040257282759-in.wav
> dirname "--to-0040257282759-in.wav"
> dirname '--to-0040257282759-in.wav'
>
> IMHO at least the last two ones schould work.
If the arguments to a program
On 01/09/2013 01:05 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/09/2013 11:01 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
Hi,
On 01/09/2013 11:34 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/09/2013 11:14 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote:
There are the following problems with the -w parameter of the seq tool:
[...]
Hmm, according to the
Hi,
On 01/09/2013 11:34 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/09/2013 11:14 AM, Marcel Böhme wrote:
There are the following problems with the -w parameter of the seq tool:
[...]
Hmm, according to the TEXI manual, the FIRST number should also use
a fixed point decimal representation when the -w o
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 01:14:22AM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 08:55 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 01/08/13 10:11, Neil Klopfenstein wrote:
>>> Note that it begins reading at the _beginning of the ar file_ -- the 'skip'
>>> argument has failed silently.
>>
>> But the 'skip' hasn
Hi Randy,
On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, Killen, Randy wrote:
Hello -
I encountered the situation shown below so thought that I would report it to
see if it might be a bug or is expected behavior. Please let me know if you
need additional information.
Randy
$
$ echo something | tr [:lower:] [:up
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:33:13AM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 11:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Can we be sure that 0x2fc12fc1 is used for all ZFS
> >> implementations?
> >
> > If there end up being two or more magic numbers for the same file
> > system (or ZFS variants go
th wrong.
-- Steven Rostedt
>From 8031b27b75f7f668e3ac4989297ce0a0f7e84e52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:48:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention uniq(1) in sort(1) man-page and vice versa
* man/sort.x: Add SEE ALSO section with entry uniq(1).
*
Hi Gilles,
On 12/23/2011 02:45 PM, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
I was using a way to check md5sum on a lot of file using
for myfile in `cat ${ALLFILES}`; do if [ -f /${myfile} ]; then md5sum
/$myfile>> $ALLFILES}.md5; fi; done
But this is slow, comparing with xargs md5sum way.
time (for myfile in
>From a8b44ddbfa9b1e75dbaabbe69bb535ed045fbf0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Auerswald
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:07:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ln: fix position of --backup values description
* src/ln.c (usage): A paragraph describing interactions of -s
with -L and -P somehow snuck
Hi,
On 11/12/2011 08:05 PM, Thomas Dignan wrote:
echo "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" | grep -o '[a-zA-Z\/0-9\-\.]*'
You probably want to use something like
echo "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" | grep -o '[-a-zA-Z/0-9.]*'
Note: The '-' should be the first character inside a character class if
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:40:17PM -0700, Ambrose Feinstein wrote:
> Trivial reproduction:
>
> $ true | tac - -
> tac: cannot create temporary file in `/tmp': Invalid argument
>
> This is present in coreutils 8.14.
This is present in coreutils 8.13 as well:
$ tac <(echo a) <(echo b)
tac: c
Hi,
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0200, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote:
>
> In the past, I was an advocate of the -p --parents option for
> mkdir. By now this is realised. Now I'm doing the same for chmod.
> [...]
> I want to be able to execute the following:
>
> chmod a+rx -p ~/dir1/dir
Hi,
On 04/28/2011 10:42 AM, Syed Nizamuddin wrote:
I get the following error .
basename: invalid option -- b
Try `basename --help' for more information.
basename: missing operand
I have basename used as
CMDE=`\basename $0 .sh`
echo "$basename is $CMDE"
Doesn't o/p anything. Please
Try
CMD
Hi,
please don't top post, thanks. And keep on reading for inline comments. ;-)
On 04/15/2011 09:33 AM, Panagiotis Tsiamis wrote:
2011/4/15 Bjartur Thorlacius
On 4/14/11, Panagiotis Tsiamis wrote:
Request for adding one more feature on the utillity whoami.
The feature should be able to call
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:15:36PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 01:58 PM, Christian wrote:
> > Am 31.03.2011 20:54, schrieb Paul Eggert:
> >> On 03/31/2011 11:25 AM, Christian wrote:
> >>> and using "0755" is explicit enough, isn't it ?
> >> Unfortunately it's not that simple, as h
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 11:25 AM, Christian wrote:
> > and using "0755" is explicit enough, isn't it ?
>
> Unfortunately it's not that simple, as having 0755 mean
> something different from 755 would violate the principle
> of least surpris
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:41:33AM -0500, Rupert Bruce wrote:
> truncate (GNU coreutils) 7.4
>
> Unexpected behavior:
>
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> $ truncate --size 0 *.log
> $ ls
> *.log
>
> I would expect "truncate --size 0 *.log" to truncate any files ending
> with ".log"; instead I get a new
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:13:20AM +0400, Ineiev wrote:
> On 11/11/10, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > We're starting to apply multi-byte support,
> > so hopefully this will be fixed soon.
>
> Could you provide a link?
>
> > $ echo "1 2 æ 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
> > 1 2
> > æ 4
> > 5 6
>
> While should be
>
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:56:57AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 16/09/10 23:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > If we're going to make incompatible changes, I suggest that
> > we solve the problem once and for all, by having "df" choose
> > the default blocksize dynamically, based on the size of th
Hi George,
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:32:55AM +0530, George Thomas Irimben (georgeti)
wrote:
> I would like to report a problem(bug?) I am facing with sort command in
> Linux.
>
> Sorting of a simple text file using simple sort command is giving me
> incorrect result.
>
> Here is the problem:
>
Hi,
On 05/22/2010 06:16 PM, Mark A Powell wrote:
Hello, I just read the "man" for the ls command. I didn't see an
option for pause, as in DOS (dir/p). There are times when it would be a
great help when, viewing more than one page of files in a directory.
I hope this is not something, I over l
Hi,
two nit-picks regarding the test script below:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:39:46AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> [...]
> @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# Ensure sort -g sorts floating point limits correctly
> [...]
> +if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
> + set -x
> + mv --version
^^
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:33:38PM -0800, Joey Degges wrote:
> Were you sure to remount your devices to clear the cache before running
> these tests? While testing this patch early on the cache caused me many
> incorrect readings. Another approach I took to clear the cache was to fill
> up all
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:15:32PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> hemant.ru...@us.ing.com wrote:
> > In old days, attackers used to create .project symbolic to passwd
> > and group files to get the List of login ids and group via
> > fingerd.
>
> The list of uids are already public in the /etc/pa
Hi Jim,
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:09:21AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> There have been disproportionately many bug fixes since coreutils-7.5.
> It's an interesting mix of fixes for recent regressions and for a few older
> bugs.
>
> coreutils snapshot:
> http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM:
> > When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in
> > „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than
> > symbol, as in ->. Is there any pl
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:51:54PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> Changes in coreutils since 7.4.115-c9c92:
> >
> > `make && make check` passes for me:
> > - non-root user
> > - glibc-2.10.1
> > - gcc-4.4.1
> > - linux-2.6.30.4
> > - x86_64 system
>
> Good to hear.
>
Hi Jim,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:42:59PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604
>
> Though it's been only two days.
>
> Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problem
Hello Lennart,
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:24:42PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Diego Pettenò complained that "ls -l" doesn't use the UTF-8 arrow
> character to show where symlinks point to. This tiny patch fixes that.
> With this applied the character is used when the CODESET is UTF-8
> othe
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:54:18PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Ethan Baldridge wrote:
> >
> > I'd argue on terms of obviousness: "I'm trying to sort these differently...
> > I should look at the options for sort!"
>
> Well lots of things boil down to sorting so I think we've to be especial
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:04:49AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>This command that accepts the -f option is *not* the GNU hostname
>command.
>
> There is a small confusion, there are two versions of GNU hostname.
> One that supports -f (GNU Inetutils hostname), and one that doesn't
Hello Jim,
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:26:45AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> > ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu --build
> > x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --sysconfdir=/etc/local/gnu
> > --libdir=/local/gnu/lib/64 --mandir=/local/gnu/share/man
> > --infodir=
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:15:16PM +0100, Major Péter wrote:
> I would like to list some folders with they block-sizes, but only
> specific folders am I interested.
> So I would like to use find to list the correct folders for me:
> ls `find . -type d -user foo -name "*"`
> this is not workin
Hi Wasim,
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:09:43PM +0530, Wasim Akram S.N. wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know whether the following is really a bug.
> ...
> wa...@wasim:~/temp$ sort -g -k1,3 -t \t a
This tells sort to regard the first three fields as one key. I think
you need something like "sort -g -k1,1 -k2
Hi Jim,
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:45:40AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here's a snapshot of the latest sources from coreutils
> and the parts of gnulib that it uses. Please beat it up ;-)
> If things work out, I may even make a test release by Wednesday.
A quick glance showed me no obvious prob
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:51:43PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And here it is... (attached).
>
> Thanks.
> Here are some minor changes I expect to "amend" into your patch.
> They alphabetize lists, tweak word
Hi,
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:31:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > OK, thanks. Do you want me to send an updated patch after coreutils-6.12
> > > is released?
> >
> > It'd be nice, an
Hi,
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:36:30PM +0200, Maximilian Haeussler wrote:
>
> Let's say I only want the 50 most common lines of a file:
> cat textfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 50 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f2
>
> This will only print the first word of each line with the current uniq
> versio
Hi,
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:31:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, thanks. Do you want me to send an updated patch after coreutils-6.12
> > is released?
>
> It'd be nice, and would serve
Hi,
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:12:57PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The copyright assignment process with the FSF is completed, find the
> > patch against current HEAD as an attachment.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> I ass
Hi,
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:10:58PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:05:48PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > >> Erik
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:10:58PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:05:48PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Erik Auerswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > IMHO md5sum and sha*sum a
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