bug#17963: strange behavior of cp

2014-07-06 Thread Paul E Condon
s into one structure. Thanks for your help, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

bug#8032: Suggestion in re. error reports from 'comm'

2011-02-13 Thread Paul E Condon
rsion, the script, as run from cron failed with message that the file(s) was/were out of order. Yes, I should have figured it out, and I finally have. But it would have been so much faster if ... -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup

2009-01-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-01-26_2152.52, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > My suggestion is that the software also rename the earlier backup > > files as follows: In each name, insert the digit zero (0) in front of > > the digit [1-9]. This will preserve the correct display order of

Suggest/Wish re. numbered backup

2009-01-26 Thread Paul E Condon
all, as the software is already doing all the preliminary work of directory lookups to accomplish its existing numbering behavior. You might also consider having an option to number in hexidecimal, but I prefer decimal. Thanks for your good work. -- Paul E Condon pecon

curious behavior in cp --- is it a bug?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul E Condon
its job, anyway. By the way, the contents of /db2/chkpnt were generated by several invocations of cp -au ... that put backup copies of /etc /home , etc. into chkpnt. I like the numbered backup feature. Good Show! -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net _

Re: incorrect copy of modify time in cp

2006-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
been fixed. I'm working with Debian Sarge. My cp version is cp (coreutils) 5.2.1 My tar version is tar (GNU tar) 1.14 -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

incorrect copy of modify time in cp

2006-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
48.0 -0600 xtn.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 pec pec 1390 2006-10-05 11:18:43.0 -0600 xtn.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pec pec 1503 2006-10-17 11:39:48.634185000 -0600 xtn.txt~ -rw-r--r-- 1 pec pec 55443 2006-10-05 11:27:46.0 -0600 xtn1999.ps To do this test, I touched xtn.txt~ just before doing

Problem with definition of a field in 'uniq'

2006-09-11 Thread Paul E Condon
o uniq that tells it to ignore leading blanks in a field, as is available in sort. Cheers, -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils