bug#24244: bug: dd deletes file

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 24244 dd: protect against same file in input,output severity 24244 wishlist tags 24244 wontfix close 24244 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-08-16 10:03 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/08/16 16:44, puggy wrote: by mistakes i used the same input and output file. dd said it wrote 0

bug#23110: seq apparent bug

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 23110 fixed close 23110 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-04-14 11:19 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 04/14/2016 06:47 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The 2 patches look good. thanks for the review, pushed. closing as "fixed". -assaf

bug#23120: cp with --dereference (-L) and --link (-l) or --symbolic-link (-s)

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
unarchive 15173 merge 23120 15173 tags 23120 fixed close 23120 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-03-26 11:26 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 26/03/16 10:36, Petr Skočík wrote: I'm on a system with cp 8.21, and when I do `cp -Ll` or `cp -Ls` on a symlink, it hardlinks (-Ll) or symlinks (-Ls)

bug#23268: sort ant uniq bug report

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 23268 notabug close 23268 (triaging old bugs) On 2016-04-11 11:56 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 04/11/2016 12:43 PM, 126 wrote: Every other input is working well,but when my input contain several lines of "src/table/checkpoint/checkPointInfo5000.lua". The result of (sort -u) c

bug#23302: mention what are nonprinting characters

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23302 stop (triaging old bugs) Le 16/04/2016 21:50, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson a écrit : In (info "(coreutils) Concept index") there are several items that talk about nonprinting characters. Well on each definition be sure to have a blue word link:: to a passage about which characters are

bug#23441: mention wc defaults more on man page

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23441 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-05-03 9:14 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: On the man page mention if the default if no arguments are given is wc --bytes --words --lines It seems your message was lost and not answered to in 2 years. Sorry about that. The first line of 'man wc'

bug#23449: cp command error report

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 23449 moreinfo close 23449 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-05-04 11:47 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 05/04/2016 02:10 AM, Bruce.Zhang wrote: When I run the command like this "/bin/cp -rf /root/update/*  /www"  .  I find some file's permissions  is update but  the file's content not

bug#23556: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2018-10-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23556 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-05-16 4:23 p.m., Carsten Hey wrote: * Assaf Gordon [2016-05-16 15:07 -0400]: IIUC, you are disputing the accuracy (or clarity) of the term "string numerical value" on the manual page, and not the actual behavior of "sort

bug#18168: Bug in "sort -V" ?

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18168 notabug close 18168 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 4 years. Sorry about that. On 2014-08-01 3:38 a.m., Schleusener, Jens wrote: I am not sure if it's a bug or not but for my application cases the "sort" command with use of the

bug#33289: tail -f error within docker container

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33289 notabug close 33289 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 2:05 a.m., Jörgen Christiansson wrote: I get this message when doing tail -f on a regular file within a docker container. tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/opt/system/log/snmpexport.trc0’. please report this to

bug#12741: any cross-compile fails due to new make-prime-list

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 12741 fixed close 12741 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2012-10-26 11:27 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote: That would be fine with me. We were precomputing the "wheel.h" table of primes before, too. If we go the route of distributing the generated file, then we might as well resort to using Perl and

bug#23645: GNU coreutils 8.25 make check report

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23645 stop On 2018-10-28 12:00 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2016-05-29 12:22 a.m., Donald A. MacDonald wrote: Just build coreutils on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan) Are you still experiencing these failures (perhaps with more recent

bug#33288: Bug report - tail: unrecognized file system type

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33288 notabug close 33288 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 6:26 a.m., Adam Solymos wrote: I have encountered an issue in tail command when running it in a Debian based Linux distro (Linux f596ea7f8fe0 4.9.93-linuxkit-aufs #1 SMP Wed Jun 6 16:55:56 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux) in a Docker

bug#12453: failed test suite on 64-bit debian squeeze

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 12453 moreinfo close 12453 stop On 2012-09-16 2:38 p.m., Jim Meyering wrote: Thank you for reporting that. At first glance, that failing assertion seems due to a bug in your system's version of valgrind. I don't immediately see a clean way to work around it. Sure, the dirty way would be

bug#15023: Coreutils on IRIX

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15023 moreinfo close 15023 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2013-08-09 2:26 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: One other thing. Under what conditions do include ? [...] and so I'd like to know which symbols protect the inclusion of (here it includes _SYS_TIME_H and the others). With no replies or

bug#19375: (no subject)

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19375 fixed close 19375 stop pushed at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=178f8e79dcd1e0b8bbb3b04da664d05eaae56186 closing.

bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/04/11 10:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 04/17/11 01:55, Jim Meyering wrote: Now that we have FIEMAP support, (by the looks of things we will soon have SEEK_HOLE support in cp and in the linux kernel) do you think adding support for this special case is

bug#19154: (no subject)

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19154 fixed close 19154 stop Pushed in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=16e2347bd545057b04a97115563e606ad822ec33 closing.

bug#6048: bug#11443: linux "cp" and ocfs2 reflink/clone/fastcopy/copy on write

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) On 14/05/12 07:19 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 05/09/2012 03:28 PM, Kai Petzke wrote: there has been work by others about adding support for the OCFS2 "reflink" ioctl() call, which is similiar to the btrfs "clone" call, and creates a copy-on-write copy of the original,

bug#5918: [dd] conv=sparse option

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 5918 fixed close 5918 stop Hello, Coreutils version 8.16 (released 2012) gained "dd conv=sparse" option, see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=4e776faa8482ae630d2ea9bc767298e664f07ba9 closing this bug. regards, - assaf

bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 15926 stop (triaging old bugs) The original topic of using remove(2) call in rm(1) was decided to be undesirable. Starting at around the 33rd message [1] the thread diverges into bugs in "rm -rf ." and similar problems (which are resolved by the 221st message [2]. [1]

bug#19681: (no subject)

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 19681 stop Pushed at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8b2bf5295f353016d4f5e6a2317d55b6a8e7fd00 closing.

bug#6667: dd ?bug? while making image of hdd with bad sectors

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 6667 notabug close 6667 stop Hello, On 19/07/10 08:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 19/07/10 10:05, Jakub Muszynski wrote: I have been trying to make a dd copy : dd if=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync bs=4096k|pv| dd of=usb320.dd conv=noerror,sync bs=4096k > dd320.LOG but image took all my

bug#6816: df bug on 64-bit Solaris (need to use getextmntent)

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 15/09/10 04:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/06/2010 01:56 PM, Wood, David wrote: From mnttab(4) on Solaris 10: [...] At this point, me->me_dev contains a wrongly packed (32-bit) device number, which forces the find_mount_point() code path (causing other

bug#7313: sha1sum etc, output in base64

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 7313 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/11/10 11:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/11/10 16:20, Pádraig Brady wrote: env printf $(sha1sum file | sed 's/ .*//; s/\(..\)/\\x\1/g') | base64 openssl dgst -sha1 -binary $file | openssl enc -base64 And also: sha1sum FILE | xxd -r -p

bug#6366: comm: use numeric sort (optionally)

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 6366 wishlist stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 22/08/12 04:00 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:17 PM, Sam Steingold wrote: I have a file of numbers (integers IDs) which are sorted numerically, but comm complains that they are not. I suggest that comm accept "-n" option

bug#7176: [PATCH] human: add unambiguous block_size_args

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7176 wontfix close 7176 stop (Triaging old bugs) Hello, On 16/04/13 11:12 AM, Mihai Capotă wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: So I was 50:50 on making this change, and in the meantime numfmt(1) was released, which gives full control over number formatting,

bug#7257: [PATCH] Correct typos in date

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7257 fixed close 7257 stop (Triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/04/11 03:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Tobias Quathamer wrote: I think I've found three typos in the date program. I've attached a patch correcting those. There was some discussion at http://debbugs.gnu.org/7257 and one change

bug#6056: base32 output for md5sum sha1sum etc.

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, A new "base32" program was added coreutils version 8.25 (released 2016). Now it is easy to run something like: sha1sum ... | cut -f1 -d' ' | xxd -r -p | base32 As such (after 8 and a half years), I'm marking this as "closed". Discussion can continue by replying

bug#9430: [PATCH] Add new option --in-place

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 9430 wontfix close 9430 stop (Triaging old bugs) Hello, On 03/09/11 10:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Picking up on an 18-month-old thread, Egan McComb found the tool I'd seen: sponge: Egan McComb wrote: > > The program that works similarly is called sponge,

bug#10013: man ls

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 10013 wontfix close 10013 stop (Triaging old bugs) Hello, With no further comments in 6 years, the last consensus seems to be this addition is undesired. I'm marking this as 'wontfix' and closing. Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. regards, - assaf

bug#11540: [PATCH] tee: add a flag to ignore SIGPIPE

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 11540 fixed close 11540 stop (Triaging old bugs) Hello, On 23/05/12 07:25 AM, Igor Ippolitov wrote: The default would be to diagnose write errors, and that could be changed with: --write-error={[cont],ignore,exit} In coreutils version 8.24 (released 2015) 'tee' gained the

bug#12964: [PATCH] printenv: -n option added -- show names of variables.

2018-10-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
(Triaging old bugs) Hello, On 22/11/12 03:42 PM, Van de Bugger wrote: Subject: [PATCH] printenv: -n option added -- show names of variables. * src/printenv.c: -n option added -- show names of variables. --- src/printenv.c | 17 + 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4

bug#32577: Bug with Docker image run

2018-08-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 29/08/18 10:45 AM, Pierre wrote: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/syslog’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in later versions (since version 8.25, released in January 2016).

bug#32807: file system type 0x794c7630

2018-09-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 22/09/18 10:41 AM, Thorbjörn 'Puggan' Sundragon wrote: "tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for 'ekonomic-access_log'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling" Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in version 8.25 and later. for more

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-31 4:36 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/20/2018 5:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: If there was an "rm --depth-first" feature, --- If you would ensure that this is possible, you would have my gratitude. There seem to be some confusion: this item was "#2"

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-31 6:24 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/31/2018 4:23 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: these are all tangents. The topic of this thread is adding support for a global configuration file.   That request is not likely to be implemented. One of the main points here was that some

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-15 8:11 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: tags 9614 wontfix severity 9614 wishlist Changed my mind (and noticed that Paul removed the "wontfix" tag), so here goes... On 27/09/11 11:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 09/27/11 22:44, Sandro Santilli wrote: A warning/err

bug#33942: ls directly uses filename as option parameter

2019-01-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33942 notabug close 33942 stop Hello, On 2018-12-31 7:52 p.m., westlake wrote:  I have known long time about certain commands that use "--" as a specially reserved parameter. However, I find the behaviour of it with ls showing a little confusing results and believe this surmounts to a

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2019-01-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Paul, On 2019-01-02 12:08 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: I think this implementation is heading in the wrong direction. To determine whether a time zone string FOO is valid, a program should call tzalloc (FOO) and sees whether that yields NULL.  And if tzalloc doesn't work that way now, we

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, I'll address only the "apparent-size" issue (not the two-columns, or compressed file-systems): On 2019-01-16 1:13 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: According to `du --help`, the apparent-size option reports a size that is not the actual disk usage. The numbers above seem to show the

bug#8960: stdbuf on bi-arch systems

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 8960 wishlist stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2011-07-04 10:15 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/06/11 21:47, Bruno Haible wrote: The program 'stdbuf' on bi-arch x86 / x86_64 systems cannot work on all kinds of programs. [...] I would like to have a single binary that works on

bug#32455: cp gets confused by symlinks to parent directory

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32455 notabug close 32455 stop Hello, It seems your message has not been replied to in a long while. Sorry about that. On 2018-08-16 8:47 a.m., Mike Crowe wrote: If cp is passed the -d option and told to copy a symlink to the directory containing the symlink then it ends up removing the

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-01-18 2:56 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: the code isn't the most welcoming to dive into I've ever seen ;) Two online resources that might help in exploring the code: http://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/

bug#32198: tail -f -F unexpected behavior

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32198 notabug close 32198 stop Hello, It seems your message has not been replied to in a long while. Sorry about that. On 2018-07-18 8:24 a.m., Matthew Guidry wrote: I was doing some experimentation with nano v2.9.3 and tail, watching the output of tail after saving in nano and

bug#34143: [coreutils 8.28] du -x is reporting a lower disk usage for /mnt when partitions are mounted

2019-01-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34143 notabug close 34143 stop Hello, On 2019-01-19 3:11 p.m., Joseph Paul wrote: It may not be a bug at all, but I was surprised to find out that 'du -x' is reporting a lower disk usage on /mnt when partitions are mounted. This is not a bug. Technically, as you wrote

bug#33785: df: don't suppress remote mounts

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33785 notabug close 33785 stop Hello, On 2018-12-19 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 17/12/18 22:42, lzhong wrote: According to the following commit commit 2e81e62243409c5c574b899f52b08c000e4d99fd df: only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with --total [...] The

bug#16282: revisit; reasoning for not using ENV vars to provide workarounds for POSIX limitations?

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 16282 wishlist tags 16282 wontfix close 16282 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-12-28 1:03 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: [...] if it makes a standard utility behave in odd ways, it'll break scripts that don't expect the odd behavior. That's the essential objection here. Yes,

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34110 wishlist retitle 34110 du: add dual-column showing apparent-size and disk-size stop Hello, On 2019-01-17 3:13 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Wednesday January 16 2019 16:06:50 Assaf Gordon wrote: I hope this helps to clarify "apparent-size". Yes and no :) I under

bug#34115: coreutils v. 8.30– Document's content gets deleted using cat(1)

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34115 notabug close 34115 merge 34115 33823 stop Hello, On 2019-01-17 5:53 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: [...] $ cat > .inputrc set enable-bracketed-paste on Press *Return*, then *Ctrl D*. [...] Content of *.inputrc*, which is expected to be still present, has been This sounds very

bug#12820: FWIW, this is still happening as of gnulib 4a82904

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 12820 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-02-28 10:08 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Perhaps there's a bug in nap () but if so the bug should be fixed there. Given the above, and with no further comments in almost 6 years, I'm closing this bug. Discussion can continue by replying to

bug#13738: Add --all option to 'users' command

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13738 wontfix close 13738 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-02-18 2:01 p.m., Bob Proulx wrote: anatoly techtonik wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: anatoly techtonik wrote: The 'users' command shows users who are currently online. It will be nice to have --all option to show all users.

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 12339 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, This long and winding thread covers several topics relating to rm(1), historical unix and POSIX compatibility (and a bugfix or two in the mix). An enlightening read for those interested... ( https://bugs.gnu.org/12339 ) But the bottom line is:

bug#9089: pipe failure with cat and head of coreutils 6.12

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 9089 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2011-07-15 5:30 a.m., Philipp Thomas wrote: I'm trying to track down a bug in cat of coreutils 6.12. Doing cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | head -n70 under ksh consistently fails with 'cat: write error: Connection reset by peer'. It does not fail when

bug#33718: Syntaxe problem? I can't find the solution :-(

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33718 moreinfo stop Hello, On 2018-12-13 1:54 a.m., Rudy BROSTEAUX wrote: Environment: AIX 7.2 TL3 SP1 (on IBM Power Systems) Origin of the coreutils RPM used @release 8.30 is perzl.org Installed using a yum server. *** /root> /usr/bin/time timeout 2.3 sleep 5 timeout: warning:

bug#12400: rmdir runs "amok", users "curse" GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)...

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 12400 rmdir: add --one-file-system option severity 12400 wishlist tags 12400 wontfix stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2012-09-09 11:22 p.m., Bob Proulx wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: If you are going to only provide 1 mode of functionality, it should be to only rmdir dirs on the same

bug#33646: [PATCH] doc: improve wording of the --kibibytes option description

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-06 6:32 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527391 --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f8339d73f..e93fe71a0 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi

bug#33211: coreutils.mo is in both LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES folders

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33211 notabug close 33211 stop Hell0, On 2018-10-30 3:33 p.m., scootergrisen wrote: I wonder if its a mistake that in Fedora i can see coreutils.mo in both: /usr/share/locale/*/LC_TIME /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES They seem to be identical. This is not a mistake (nor a bug). Not

bug#33371: RFC: option for numeric sort: ignore-non-numeric characters

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33371 notabug close 33371 stop Hello, On 2018-11-18 6:08 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 11/14/2018 12:27 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote: Perhaps --version-sort could work for you? "-V" seems like it might be sufficient, Given the above, I'm closing this item. regards, - assaf

bug#23896: ls incorrectly shows quotes when listing file names with spaces

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-07-05 3:20 a.m., Ruediger Meier wrote: On Monday 04 July 2016, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/07/16 19:11, Shamim Islam wrote: Description of problem: Terminal sessions display quotes for files with spaces in them. This is non-intuitive behavior. The file name does not have quotes

bug#33433: Bug in directory listing display

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-11-19 10:49 a.m., Brian Hartvigsen wrote: Items with spaces are incorrectly listed surrounded by single quotes. This is problematic for a number of reasons. One of which is that files or directories that contain a mix of quotes in their titles are now displayed incorrectly. This

bug#33577: ls lacks null terminator option

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33577 notabug severity 33577 wishlist retitle 33577 doc: mention find/stat in ls documentation stop Hello, On 2018-12-05 4:39 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Fine. Put a message on top of (info "(coreutils) ls invocation") saying that your pipes are better. Given the suggested solution

bug#26991: New quoting takes up unnecessary space

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2017-05-19 6:37 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: On 19/05/17 07:48, L A Walsh wrote: The new format uses extra spacing on columns where it isn't needed -- but the extra space isn't enough to handle the 1 file that was quoted (needs 5 extra columns).  Where does it get

bug#22580: shell-escape in tty in ls

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-02-07 12:44 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/02/16 20:28, Paul Vint wrote: Maybe I'm the only one, but the new change in ls seems bad: set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_quoting_style); This is set if the output is a TTY. Why would we want to quote if the output is a

bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-11-12 5:27 a.m., Rüdiger Meier wrote: On Friday 11 November 2016 21:00:23 Eric Blake wrote: On 11/11/2016 12:26 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Michael Schwager wrote: Don't you think I can see the spaces in my filenames? We created a summary of common issues and FAQs regarding

bug#22696: ls output changes considered unacceptable

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-02-17 9:46 a.m., Mike Hodson wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/16/2016 11:50 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: [...] We don't want those single quotes. We created a summary of common issues and FAQ regarding the quoting change in ls(1):

bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, 'ls' did not recently add any more cases where tty output differs from non-tty output when all other things are equal in the default state. All that changed was that tty output is formatted differently than it has been in the past. We created a summary of common issues and FAQs

bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-05-02 8:38 p.m., billy noah wrote: In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may require escaping. Some extended discussion can be found here:

bug#33048: ls wrapping items with spaces in single quotes

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, We created a summary of common issues and FAQs regarding the quoting change in ls(1): https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html If there is an issue that is not addressed there, please send an email to coreut...@gnu.org . regards, - assaf

bug#33157: QUOTING_STYLE change of default

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-25 3:45 p.m., Arvid Requate wrote: after updating to Debian buster I had the impression that my eyes are failing on me. This posting pretty much summarizes my opinion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg1.html especially the first paragraph: We

bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

2018-12-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-13 5:18 p.m., Zhiming Wang wrote: On Dec 13, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html - The page doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere; not the coreutils FAQ, not the manual. So discoverability seems rather poor

bug#33786: Bug: undocumented feature (algorithm) for version-sort (include on manpage)

2018-12-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33786 notabug severity 33786 wishlist retitle 33786 doc: sort: document Debian's version-sort algorithm stop Hello, On 2018-12-18 12:11 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: meaning that if one is going to put a Debian sort into a general purpose tool like "sort", then the algorithm really needs to be

bug#33786: Bug: undocumented feature (algorithm) for version-sort (include on manpage)

2018-12-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-18 1:06 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: So undocumented features are considered wishlist items in Gnu? In your message you wrote: On 2018-12-18 12:11 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: The request here is for the algorithm used by 'version-sort' be included in sort's manpage. Thus it is a

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33787 wontfix close 33787 stop Hello, On 12/17/18 11:12 PM, L A Walsh wrote: I find that /etc/xattr.conf is being used to regulate behavior in gnu tools. It's worth noting that "/etc/xattr.conf" comes from a shared-library (libattr.so) that is optionally used by cp(1). It is not part of

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-20 5:36 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: The below methods cannot alter or fix  the problems that require a configuration file. Example: have 'rm -fr .' do a depth first removal and not pre-inspect any argument before its children. Whether or not to expand tabs in output so that

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-20 6:46 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/20/2018 5:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: If you are requesting such features (or others) It's best to start a new thread for each topic. They've already been discussed and ignored because there was no way to add the feature

bug#33824: coreutils v.8.30 – An expression part of a cat command is interpreted as "ambiguous redirect" when applied to a target.

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33824 notabug close 33824 stop Hello, On 2018-12-21 8:32 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Command executed: $ cat a* >> b* bash: b*: ambiguous redirect Thought the same syntax is used with success when applied only to source files: $ cat a* >> b $ Probably a bug. This is not a bug - it is

bug#33622: coreutils v. 8.30 – Tail prints the first row in 'tail -n '

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33622 notabug close 33622 stop Hello, On 2018-12-05 5:49 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:51:09 AM CET Ricky Tigg wrote: OS: *Fedora*. Component: coreutils.x86_64 8.30-6.fc29 @System Tail prints the first row in 'tail -n ' Command executed: $ dnf repoquery

bug#33775: fold: counting multi-byte utf-8 sequences as separate columns

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 33775 wishlist retitle 33775 multibyte: fold: multi-byte sequences as separate columns stop Hello, On 2018-12-16 6:32 p.m., Michael Siegel wrote: I've just discovered an odd behavior of `fold' while trying to wrap a piece of text containing phonetic characters. Take the following

bug#33823: coreutils v.8.30 – Command, pasted from text editor to GUI terminal, not displayed though applied

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33823 notabug close 33823 stop Hello, On 2018-12-21 8:06 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Paste it to a text editor keeping a *mono-space* font as font applied to text. From text editor copy that same pattern. Paste it into terminal as new command. Press *Enter*-key. End file (*Ctrl D*). [...]

bug#33281: head does not consume input after '-c' is satisfied

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33281 wontfix severity 33281 wishlist close 33281 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 12:52 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 11/5/18 1:17 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote: To achieve consistency in the other direction, head could ignore the optimization to reduce the number of bytes read, and always read 8192

bug#33727: File system unrecognized

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-13 8:18 a.m., Jeroen De Vries wrote: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for '/opt/openhab2/userdata/logs/events.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in coreutils version 8.25 -

bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-11-30 7:12 p.m., Zhiming Wang wrote: On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Paul Vint wrote: The alignment change is helpful, but I do have an argument against doing the same in the -1 case: It breaks something many of us have done in scripts. It breaks nothing. Quoting and alignment

bug#33408: tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42

2018-11-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-11-16 2:34 p.m., Chakra Srivatsa wrote: The filesystem in question is ZFS. tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42 for 'stdout.txt'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thanks for the report. It seems the filesystem is actually smb2 (id

bug#31554: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#31554: Fwd: Re: Potential bug in md5sum)

2018-11-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Bill, On 2018-11-18 2:37 p.m., Riedy, Bill wrote: The wording is vague, could you please clarify which of the following are true: 1) That you recognize this as a bug and it is going to be fixed 2) That you recognize this as a bug but it will NOT be fixed 3) Some other scenario that I

bug#22022: ls - error making symbolic links with relative paths

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 22022 ln: error making symbolic links with relative paths tags 22022 notabug close 22022 stop Hello, On 2015-11-26 9:13 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: [...] You may be interested in trying 'ln --relative -sv b/* c/' instead, which creates 'c/a' as a symlink to '../b/a', and therefore resolves

bug#34009: warn that mkdir --mode doesn't affect parents created

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34009 wishlist retitle 34009 doc: mkdir: warn that --mode doesn't affect parents stop Hello, On 2019-01-07 8:36 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: do warn that --mode doesn't affect any parents created. $ mkdir --mode 700 -p /tmp/g/h/i $ find /tmp/g -ls 55795 0 drwxr-xr-x 3

bug#33204: Failed to modify 'Access Time' for files without extension using the Touch tool ver 8.4

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 33204 stop Hello, On 2018-10-31 7:10 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 10/30/18 3:49 AM, ˮ��֮�� wrote: HI,Dear developer of GNU tools:   I found a possible bug when using the Touch tool. Most likely, this is not a bug in coreutils, but a limitation between the operating system and file

bug#32291: Fwd: ls -ltcr and ls -lrt report different modification dates

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32291 notabug close 32291 stop Hello, Seems your message was not replied to in 6 months - sorry about that. On 2018-07-27 3:48 a.m., Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote: `ls -ltcr` seems to be the one showing the correct date here. I like to use `ls -ltc` because it's my initials. My

bug#20775: cp -a -u destroys files after they are copied

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 20775 wishlist retitle 20775 cp: improve hardlink dups handling with "cp -a -u" stop With no further comments in more than 3 years, I'm marking this as a "wish list" item. -assaf

bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if one of files is a dir and other not

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 15727 wishlist retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest stop Hello, On 2013-10-29 12:20 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: [...] You need to make the docs much more clear about "cp"s limitations. update isn't eally update, and -T is certainly wrong at the very least. 

bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 25159 stop On 2018-10-28 1:35 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote: Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi. [...] chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ': Operation not permitted If this is still an issue for you, can

bug#29285: Error building coreutils 8.28.32-a4eed under Archlinux from AUR

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 29285 stop On 2018-10-29 8:09 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2017-11-13 7:43 a.m., timofonic timofonic wrote: As the coreutils build system reported, I'm sending the following building error from using the coreutils-git Arch User Repository package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages

bug#34026: mention that long options aren't always as good as short options

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34026 wishlist retitle 34026 doc: explain long-vs-short options stop Hello, On 2019-01-09 9:23 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Yes do warn in the manual, as here root (so no $HOME) expected tilde expansion... Thanks. I'm marking this as a wish-list item. If we are to add a section

bug#15328: Bug or dubious feature?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15328 notabug close 15328 stop Hello, On 2013-09-10 3:01 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: Whatever the problem is, it's not in 'mv'... Given the above, and no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this item. regards, - assaf

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Berny and all, On 2018-11-29 1:48 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: The attached are quite raw attempts to address this - yes, as a function instead of a macro. ;-) * [PATCH] long-options: add parse_gnu_standard_options_only gnulib patch! For the gnulib patch, I believe the following

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-01-12 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Eric, On 2019-01-12 8:42 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 1/11/19 6:23 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: -  optind = 0; +  optind = 1; Ouch. You're hitting the portability problem of the difference between BSD and glibc. Otherwise many things fail like so:   $ ./src/dd   ./src/dd: unrecognized

bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
perhaps a bit too dense (lots of text with no quick examples). Attached is an improvement suggestion, adding a summary table, and details examples. Comments and feedback welcomed, - assaf >From f5774f87df4af912fd826f3d4208c9cd766e7524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Sun,

bug#31055: Document ls -Ur -fr

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
'whatever' doesn't mean -U, -f, because they are sorted in "unsorted" order. In fact perhaps trigger an error. Attached a small patch to clarify this point in the manual. regards, -assaf >From 0ffd6cdc5457fdedac997c9f66e3255278cabba5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Su

bug#33025: Add examples of why one would want to "sort" something "randomly"

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
ith "why", that is left to the users to decide when they need it, but it shows clear examples of how to use it). regards, - assaf >From a8ae1f29a96b47b9a9c2b26875bd41bfa124e83b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:21:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add

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