bug#46808: Man page of "tail"

2022-02-25 Thread Reuti via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
> Am 24.02.2022 um 00:02 schrieb Andreas Schwab : > > On Feb 27 2021, Reuti wrote: > >> I'm not a `groff` expert, but the sequence "\,some-text\/" appears a couple >> of times. What effect does it have for the formatting as the "," and "/

bug#46808: Man page of "tail"

2021-02-26 Thread Reuti
quot;\,some-text\/" appears a couple of times. What effect does it have for the formatting as the "," and "/" are not output? -- Reuti

bug#27864: [request] safety to prevent `rm -rf ~`

2017-07-28 Thread Reuti
/home/your_user or whatever was set as home directory? The `rm` will never see the plain ~, unless one writes ./~ or alike. -- Reuti

bug#26971: mv -v output ordering looks impossible

2017-05-18 Thread Reuti
d be more useful. It would also be less confusing, since people who > use 'mv' already know the syntax of 'mv' etc., whereas with the draft version > they would need to deduce another syntax. This could be interpreted as steps someone has to issue now to complete the command. Like the output of `ssh-agent`. - Leave the output like it was initially. - Introduce -vv to increase verbosity and output the above sequence. -- Reuti signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

bug#26491: date and echo using with underscore

2017-04-14 Thread Reuti
stem is debian with coreutils 8.26-3 > // > // db=`date -d "-1day" +%Y%m%d` > // i="0" > This is the result from my system > > ~$ echo "$db_$i" > 0 > ~$ echo "$db\_$i" > 20170413\_0 > ~$ echo "$db$i" > 201704130 The syntax is to use curly braces to limit the name of the varable: echo "${db}_${i}" -- Reuti

bug#26279: sort bug

2017-03-28 Thread Reuti
ed. This should work: $ sort -o foo.txt foo.txt -- Reuti signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

bug#26228: ls bug

2017-03-23 Thread Reuti
ev/sda1 > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2 I read this as range 1-1 and single character 2. This should work: ls -l /dev/sda{1-12} - -- Reuti -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAljUMN8ACgkQo/GbGkBRnRpzXwCfdC+6gsSXqG3c9

bug#26029: Problems with join

2017-03-09 Thread Reuti
e implementations. … The obsolescent -j options and the multi-argument -o option are removed in this version." Therefore I still favor to move "-j" at the end of the man page in a separate section, also taking: Q15: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html into acc

bug#26029: Problems with join

2017-03-09 Thread Reuti
A:Profi > : Hans Hirnlos: Nici Blondie: Hummer: D:Profi > peter@SLES11-3:~/kluge/join> For me it's working: $ join -t: -1 2 sz tn 101:3h32'27:: Willi Wild: Waltraud Weisnix: Mercedes:A:Profi 102:2h55'11:: Hans Hirnlos: Nici Blondie: Hummer: D:Profi $ join --version join (GNU coreutils) 8.17 What version do you have in SLES11-3? -- Reuti signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

bug#26029: Problems with join

2017-03-09 Thread Reuti
Hi, > Am 08.03.2017 um 19:17 schrieb Reuti : > > […] > The strange thing seems to be, that "-j1 2" is handled like "-1 2". "-j 1" > should already have an option and "2" would then become the first filename > making the last filename in

bug#26029: Problems with join

2017-03-08 Thread Reuti
d "2" would then become the first filename making the last filename in the command line superfluous. -- Reuti signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

bug#25540: notice issue in expand -- doesn't allow for expressing tabsize value in tabstop(s)

2017-01-26 Thread Reuti
> Am 26.01.2017 um 12:04 schrieb Pádraig Brady : > > On 26/01/17 10:26, Reuti wrote: >> >>> Am 26.01.2017 um 05:29 schrieb L A Walsh : >>> >>> >>> In programs that take tabstops, as an alternative to a tabsize, I've always >>> s

bug#25540: notice issue in expand -- doesn't allow for expressing tabsize value in tabstop(s)

2017-01-26 Thread Reuti
a width of 5 and all remaining have a width of 9 (could also be */9 instead of /9). While we are on this: expand -t 5,15,25,35 file expand -t 5,15,2535 file are AFAICS both the same. I would expect the second to behave different (using a space for the three tabs which have no value). -- Reuti signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

bug#24958: Please make "omitting directory" message clearer

2016-11-16 Thread Reuti
e what I judge as a good error message: "I can't do A because of B, but you can try C to get it working anyway" and I go for printing it in all my own scripts and applications. -- Reuti > Paul > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Samuel Thibault > wrote: > >> P

bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

2016-11-11 Thread Reuti
you don't see where it ends: $ ls --quoting-style=literal a b a b a b a b xx $ ls --quoting-style=shell 'a b' a b a b a b xx $ ls --quoting-style=shell-always 'a b' 'a b' 'a b' 'a b' ' xx ' $ ls -l total 0

bug#24894: coreutils 8.4 : `test -s` without argument does not return an error

2016-11-07 Thread Reuti
ce the true result). Doesn't -s refer to a FILE existence, it's not -z? But I thought in a similar way: it may be incomplete, but not omitted. Nevertheless: the bash builtin behaves the same. @Alain: I have no AIX, but l get the impression that test is also a ksh-builtin. Are you

bug#24730: rmdir/mkdir error(s) and/or not working "reciprocally" w/each other

2016-10-18 Thread Reuti
removed, but you can't do that, > at this point, POSIX is fuzzy whether to attempt to remove 'a', or to > give up since 'a/..' was already an error; but obviously coreutils > removes 'a' What version of core-utils shows this behavior. In the latest one it

bug#24294: Bug in mv, -- and - prefixes

2016-08-23 Thread Reuti
; dest_folder" would work like "mv -v * dest_folder" and "mv --version" You can switch if off by -- as an option, i.e.: $ mv -- --foo -bar The -- ends the list of options and works with `touch`, `rm` and others too. -- Reuti