Hi,
Using date from coreutils 8.31-1 on Arch Linux.
This surprised me.
$ TZ=UTC0 /bin/date -d '1pm + 2 hours'
Wed 8 May 15:00:00 UTC 2019
$ TZ=UTC0 /bin/date -d '13:00 + 2 hours'
Wed 8 May 12:00:00 UTC 2019
The documentation doesn't suggest `1pm' and `13:00' are treated
differe
Hi,
coreutils 8.29-1 on Arch Linux.
$ date -uIs -d @-62135596801
-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
$ date -uIs -d @-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
date: invalid date ‘@-12-31T23:59:59+00:00’
$
If date thinks it's valid ISO 8601 when it outputs it,
I'd ex
Hi,
Of dd(1), POSIX says
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/dd.html
lcase
Map uppercase characters specified by the LC_CTYPE keyword
tolower to the corresponding lowercase character. Characters
for which no mapping is specified shall not be
> OK, well for %b and %q bash's built-in printf calls it's own
> printstr() and that does do things like `fw = -fw' without checking if
> fw was already the largest negative.
On a related note, I can't interrupt this, e.g. Ctrl-C.
printf '%-92233720368547758q.\n' foo
Cheers, Ralph.
P.S. Pl
Hi Jim,
> > On 07/20/2011 07:34 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > BTW, the code for the built-in printf has a bug. For negative
> > > field-widths it negates a negative integer without checking it
> > > will fit. E.g. on this 64-bit machine
> > >
>
Hi Eric,
> > $ printf '%-9223372036854775808s.\n' foo
> > foo.
> > $
>
> Coreutils' printf shares this misfortune. Sadly, it might even be a
> bug in the underlying glibc printf(), although I haven't tried to
> write a test program to check that, yet.
OK, well for %b and %q bash'
Hi Eric and Andreas,
Andreas wrote:
> > $ echo 1/3,1/2,1/1,2/1 | tr , \\012 | sort -nu -t / -k 1,2
>
> There is only one sort key, which spans the first two fields of each
> line, and -n tells sort to only consider the numeric prefix of each
> key. If you want to sort on multiple keys you ne
Hi,
This seems wrong.
$ echo 1/3,1/2,1/1,2/1 | tr , \\012 | sort -nu -t / -k 1,2
1/3
2/1
$
-u should only filter out lines that compare equal on *all* key fields.
I've opened an Ubuntu bug at
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/56891 which
has more detail
