On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Ali Hamza wrote:
I m building LFS Version 5.2.1.
In chapter six when i configured coreutils-5.2.1.
with
DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix =/usr
command i received the following error message
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Hey no fair. rm has a -i, but rmdir doesn't.
Yes, there are other ways to simulate it.
May be that's because rmdir works on ``empty'' directories. No point
prompting.
Vamsee
--
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steven Schubiger wrote:
On 7 Apr, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
: Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing to
: directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty directory
: about 2 years ago when I started using GNU/Linux.
Could we have
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Daniel wrote:
It would probably help someone whos new at linux if it would read
'removes the directory specified and all of its content recursively'.
Removes the contents of the directory specified and then
removes the directory itself. I think that's the proper way to
Hello,
If no one else is trying to implement these features, I'd like to
give it a shot.
regards,
GVK
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Markus Kuhn wrote:
Feature proposal for POSIX uname:
At present, the 'uname -o' command simply gives GNU/Linux for any of the
many Linux distributions. Since
Tried it. Program exited normally. Can you test it again on a different
machine and post the information? I'm using coreutils-5.2.1, btw.
regards,
GVK
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Arnaud M. wrote:
Hello,
I've found a reproducible bug in 'du' program, if you need more information to debug
it,
Hello,
The info page describes printf as
`printf' prints the FORMAT string, interpreting `%' directives and
`\' escapes in the same way as the C `printf' function.
So, isn't `printf %c 65' supposed to print 'A' instead of '6'? Please
let me know if it's a bug or not. Unable to sleep
