Re: touch README

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Re: help

is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: SFTP problems

have any suggestions on what is wrong here. Unfortunately, neither jsch or SFTP are provided by any of the coreutils. You may have better luck taking your bug report to a different mailing list. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: coreutils-check-log

failed test; and the directions in coreutils-5.93/README give some more instructions about how to provide useful test failure results to this list. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin

Re: Slash appears twice using ls -ldF

is not in effect? $ ls -dp --color=always / // | od -tx1z -An 1b 5b 30 30 6d 1b 5b 30 31 3b 33 34 6d 2f 1b 5b .[00m.[01;34m/.[ 30 30 6d 2f 0a 1b 5b 30 31 3b 33 34 6d 2f 2f 1b 00m/..[01;34m//. 5b 30 30 6d 2f 0a 1b 5b 6d [00m/..[m -- Eric Blake

Re: Slash appears twice using ls -ldF

with / or //, even when appending the trailing slash changes the filename printed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: coreutils-5.94 imminent

seemed to reach any solid conclusions. However, I am inclined to believe that rename(a, b/) is ambiguous of whether it should succeed in the same situation, and that mv a b/ should succeed if the underlying rename(2) can do so. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: coreutils-5.94 imminent

shall be removed. So which rule applies here - must rename remove the symbolic link and replace it with the directory, or fail with ENOTDIR? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command

--seed=STRING seed random hash function with STRING - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: canon-host problems in cygwin

-02-15 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * sys_socket_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_SYS_SOCKET): Don't attempt using winsock2.h or ws2tcpip.h when sys/socket.h is present. Fixes 'present but cannot compile' warnings on cygwin. * socklen.m4 (gl_TYPE_SOCKLEN_T): Use gl_HEADER_SYS_SOCKET

Re: canon-host problems in cygwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 2/15/2006 4:28 PM: And here is a patch. The cygwin list confirmed that sys/socket.h and ws2tcpip.h are intentionally incompatible, and that although the later is available for use in mingw compiles, it purposefully

bug in yesno()?

is not consumed too early? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: rm issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2006 9:14 AM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you propose that --interactive alone be equivalant to --interactive=always or -i, and that the long option for -I is --interactive=once. Is it worth having

Re: rm issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 2/20/2006 6:06 AM: ChangeLog: 2006-02-18 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * TODO (rm): Implement rm -I. * NEWS: Document it, along with change to rm --interactive. Thanks. Applied. I missed one spot

Re: du and --exclude --exclude-from

not work as they should. They do not exclude the above directories. Exclusion is intended for files not listed on the command line. By listing the directory explicitly, you are bypassing the exclusion check for that directory. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug

Re: comparing string with regular expression using test command in unix

such unenforceable disclaimers when posting to public mailing lists. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: rln, a potential new core util

disclaimer does not qualify; if you actually contributed a patch, you would have to fill out and snail mail paperwork to the FSF offices. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

ls -i inefficiency

that on platforms without d_ino, format_needs_inode implies format_needs_stat. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

root-dev-ino.c limitation

. The potential problem with the latter, on platforms where directory hard-links are permitted, is that a corrupted filesystem might have 'dir/..' pointing to 'dir' without any path back to /, in which case you DO want an error about pwd not being able to trace back to /. -- Eric Blake

Re: root-dev-ino.c limitation

contexts where the added space would be a pointless waste. Agreed, and I was planning on introducing a new type to store info on a doubled root. I'll work on a patch, and propose it once I get it hammered out alongside a repost of my basename/dirname patch. -- Eric Blake

Re: ls -i inefficiency

been browsing CVS of ls.c to try to spot it myself, but nothing jumped out on a quick read between revision 1.352 (5.2.1) and 1.406 (CVS head) as the culprit. So we'll have to do a separate patch for NEWS, once we have done more research. ChangeLog: 2006-02-26 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

difference between robust_getcwd and rpl_getcwd

implementations, and I wonder if any features should be factored out between the two. Furthermore, since some parts of gnulib, such as canonicalize.c, depend on getcwd, it would be nice if it were as easy to patch lib/getcwd.c to recognize // as a distinct root. -- Eric Blake

Re: testsuite bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PING According to Eric Blake on 11/15/2005 6:36 AM: The mv/leak-fd test is broken on cygwin (and possibly Mac, although I can't test that) due to case-insensitive file systems. Cygwin reports 'mkdir: cannot create directory `A': File exists' when

module for PRI*MAX macros?

, (uintmax_t) ino); - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: sort -u -n error : sort v 4.5.3

the same key. When -n or -u is used alone, a tiebreaker is used that sorts based on the rest of the line. But when used together, the behavior correctly stops after one line. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: sort -u -n error : sort v 4.5.3

64.202 64.201 64.203 $ sort -nu blah # numeric keys do not include decimal points in LANG=C 0 64.202 -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bug#354875: /bin/cp directory full vs. disk full messages

. In my mind, it is unfortunate that FAT was chosen as the filesystem of choice for flash drives, since FAT cannot preserve file permissions. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment

ptx --copyright

is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: document that echo can't be given a NULL

is allowed or not, but I think it makes more sense for command substitution to strip NULs than to risk the inconsistency of arguments being chopped short as they are passed through exec() calls. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils

Re: Bug: echo -e \0NNN doesn't require leading '0'

sequences (POSIX only requires that portable applications limit themselves to defined sequences, where the definition includes the leading 0 for octal escapes). Consider using printf instead. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

RE: Using SORT on Linux

://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-02/msg00078.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

[patch #4978] hexadecimal support for dd

Follow-up Comment #2, patch #4978 (project coreutils): How about introducing new operands? POSIX requires 'x' to mean multiplication of decimal values in bs, cbs, ibs, and obs; but for count, skip, and seek, it only documents a value 'n'. So for the former, why not introduce bsx, cbsx, ibsx,

Re: bug in sort 5.2.1

-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Try 'LC_ALL=C sort sort.txt' to see the difference. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: ptx --copyright

some warnings about changes like this.) How about this? ChangeLog: 2006-03-22 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/ptx.c (usage): Remove mention of --copyright/-C. (main): Alias --copyright to --version plus a deprecation warning. * NEWS: Mention this. doc/ChangeLog

patches ping

reposting that one now. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] disappearing message was msgid [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Yes, my ISP uses WAY too many characters in their id string! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: sort -u -n error : sort v 4.5.3

first reading, since it was indented as though it applied only when -k was in effect. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: ptx --copyright

How about if we alias it to --version, and deprecate it? That would avoid breaking anything depending on ptx -C. (Admittedly unlikely, but it's nicer to give users some warnings about changes like this.) How about this? ChangeLog: 2006-03-22 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src

Re: possible enhancement in ls

it is much slower to traverse all subdirectories and do additional stats in order to find the total size contained in a directory. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: Diff/Patch in Windows

of porting required to get the program to compile on a non-POSIX platform. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: gnuls bug report

-a)? What compiler are you using? Can you find the section of config.log that shows the test program that failed compilation, and send that to the list? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1

Re: Bug report

dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEKS2R84KuGfSFAYARAtKgAJ9shPXMT4za9ClxyZXVBPd

Re: inquires on sort text

for the purposes of disclaimer-free list posts). -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: ls: new feature proposal

) dirname = current_working_dir; } absolute_name = alloca (strlen (name) + strlen (dirname) + 2); alloca on arbitrary-length names is prone to stack overflow. Consider using xmalloc instead. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug report

to compile when checking for sys/mount.h, as well as the compiler output explaining why it failed. Without that information, we can't tell if it is a bug in the configure script, in your system headers, or in your choice of compiler options. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

default quoting style

is literal, but that someday it may switch to shell. Is it time to make that swap? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: bug (feature?) in ls

locale settings, and some locales (including en_US) ignore punctuation when sorting. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-ls-command-is-not-listing-files-in-a-normal-order_0021 Try running 'LC_ALL=C ls -al' instead. -- Eric Blake

Re: bug in rsnapshot 1.2.1 due to change in /bin/cp 5.93

in coreutils 5.94 (the latest stable version). All I can recommend now is that rsnapshot be patched to avoid this portability trap of cp, since other platforms (such as Solaris or BSD) have different rename semantics in this corner case. -- Eric Blake

Re: chmod

files. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: rmdir -p foo/bar/nonexistent

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Re: rmdir -p foo/bar/nonexistent

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/10/2006 6:57 AM: 2. If the dir operand includes more than one pathname component, effects equivalent to the following command shall occur: rmdir -p $(dirname dir) And that looks like a bug in POSIX

Re: ptx -i ignore_file doesn't appear to work

you accept a patch to ptx that ignores \r in the ignore file, so that files created on platforms with CRLF endings can be used without modification when read in binary mode? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: feature-request: add banner to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux utility

://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-07/msg00215.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [fileutils] mkdir problem

modified by u+wx. In other words, this is probably not a bug in mkdir, but a case of restrictive umask settings. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: ls -l `file type' column not documented

(regular) file 'l' for symbolic links 's' for sockets 'p' for fifos 'C' for contigous data files '-' for regular files '?' for any other file type. */ - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: chown clears suid bit!

time and reset special permission bits, as POSIX requires. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

ptx default ignore file

. Does it still make sense to document a default file if we don't compile one in? [Also, it appears that anon CVS is stuck again - the last publicly-visible commit was on the 30th.] -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

[bug #16325] Fixes needed to build coreutils on Interix (SFU or SUA)

' stat.c:284: error: structure has no member named `f_type' make[3]: *** [stat.o] Error 1 This followup patch fixes the issue for me, although I'm not sure it is the correct approach: 2006-04-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Define to 0 if f_type is needed

Re: One posibly improvement for date.c...

in PS1 is a better solution to your needs. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Problem with running tests during installing coreutils-5.94

known to happen before), but it takes some big efforts to debug stuff like that. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: head and tail command

stdin with shell redirection - for example, it is common to do something like 'tail --help | head', so that the stdin for the head command is now the pipe output from tail rather than the terminal. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: Using filters

this are impossible to enforce when you send mail to a publicly-archived list. You are better off opening up a free webmail account if your place of employment insists on appending one of these worthless footers when you send mail to public lists. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric

Re: tr broken with accented chars

to a, and the remaining byte is passed through unchanged but now forms an illegal utf-8 sequence. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: COMMAND FOR CP

doesn't make sense to cp since *.gnt does not exist as a directory name. However, if you are using bash or a similar shell, the following construct would do what you desire: for f in *.GNT; do cp ${f/.GNT}.gnt ; done -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils

Re: COMMAND FOR CP

the original to a temporary name, then move it again to the new case spelling -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: gnulib changes to conform to Autoconf 2.59c rules for 'exit'

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Re: Some bug in 'pwd' command

' is recognized; coreutils' pwd will respond with a version number instead of an error message. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: date bug (documentation bug?)

could be made clearer, or think you can patch the date parser to accept the weird format of date as a valid argument to --date/--set, we would love to hear your ideas. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[patch #3596] Sort directories before files in ls

Update of patch #3596 (project coreutils): Status:None = Ready For Test ___ Follow-up Comment #5: A derivative of the ideas in this patch tracker has been committed to CVS this week, so in

Re: error in date command

, when run in bash the command above reports the date in the following format: mm/dd/ Try rerunning as: env LC_ALL=C /bin/date +%x -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: sort -n -u buggy ???

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Re: I found a little bug of uname command

is useful. I suggest reading http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for ideas on better bug reporting. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: bug in date: --rfc-3339=seconds and --rfc-3339=ns options do *not* output timestamps in RFC 3339 format

is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: coreutils don't accept time_t value

:00 MST 1999 date -u -d 70-1-1 00:00:`date +%s` date: invalid date `70-1-1 00:00:1146711463' date --version date (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 5.3.0 was an unstable release. Consider upgrading to the latest stable release, 5.94. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug

Re: md5sum returns unrecognized option when using arg --string=

, as suggested in the 1996-09-26 patch.' See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00122.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: fold and multibyte characters

-- Original message -- From: Egmont Koblinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, It seems to me that fold (5.94) doesn't support multibyte locales. I have LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, no other LC_ variables set, fully UTF-8 environment. When I launch fold -s to format a UTF-8

Re: fold and multibyte characters

the terminal's width if stdout is a terminal. Interesting idea. However, it would require a command-line option, since POSIX requires that fold use 80 columns by default. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: coreutils-5.95 imminent

If any of you can point to changes on the trunk that you'd like to see on the stable branch, speak now. version 1.172 of df.c, http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/coreutils/src/df.c?rev=1.172root=coreutilsview=log, which avoids displaying garbage disk sizes. -- Eric Blake

Re: Linux filereading

applies to your case as well: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#I-have-a-file-called-_003cspan-class_003d_0022option_0022_003e_002d_002dhelp_003c_002fspan_003e_002e-How-do-I-remove-it_003f In short, try 'vi -- -2.xml' or 'vi ./-2.xml'. -- Eric Blake

Re: info?

pages but in html format, for more modern browsing. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: sort

separator to ., then using a series of -k1,1n through -k4,4n to state that field 1 is the primary key and numerically sorted, field 2 is the second key and numerically sorted, etc., will get you a sort order more like what you seem to be wanting. -- Eric Blake

Re: Feature request, mv

at the -T option in coreutils' rm. I think it does exactly what you want (although it is not portable to other rm implementations): $ mkdir www1 www2 $ ln -s www1 www $ ln -s tmp www2 $ mv -f -T -v tmp www `tmp' - `www' $ readlink www www2 -- Eric Blake

Re: Feature request, mv

will be needed than what you proposed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Feature request, mv

began. If new names an existing directory, it shall be required to be an empty directory. Therefore, we have found another 'mv -f -T' bug: $ mkdir dir other $ mv -fT other dir should succeed, not fail. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug

Re: bug in getting the manual pages

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Re: `configure' and `make/bison' build issues

, should not be regenerated unless the user edited the upstream file). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: textutils-2.1/src/split.c

here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-02/msg00078.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: textutils-2.1/src/split.c

to search the archives. According to François Boutines on 5/12/2006 8:36 AM: On 5/12/06, *Eric Blake* wrote: Nothing really serious but in textutils-2.1/src/split.c There is a 0xFF character at the beginning of line 17 Thanks for the report. However, textutils

Re: back-forward functionality in 'cd'

forward); but even that is unlikely, since the pushd and popd builtins of bash already have the ability to traverse a directory stack, which sounds like the feature you are asking for. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

RE: comm command bug while using with Tilda delimited files

netiquette to use an employer's email account where such footers are appended against your will when posting to a public list. Consider using a free web-based email account for such purposes. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: i need urgent help

. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Question about md5sum

is already possible with md5sum. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bug#369822: ls -i stats unnecessarily

, and always do stat on those platforms? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Using date with the -d option produces inconsistent results

to the parser are welcome, but for now this is a documented limitation of the ambiguities of date parsing. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: filutils 4.1

looked into the find utility, part of the findutils package? It can already do what you are looking for, which is recursively printing filenames with absolute paths. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: installation java

question. Sorry I couldn't help more. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: sleep args

it might be useful: 'sleep 1m -1s' could sleep 59 seconds rather than giving an error. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [Chet Ramey] Re: current input line lost on ^Z

the characters, before cat ever has a chance to see them. I don't know if you would have better success trying to track this down with xterm developers, or if it is a kernel issue, but coreutils is faithfully printing everything that is handed to it via read(). -- Eric Blake

Re: verbose mode of RM

, including the standard programs for text and file manipulation. Consider upgrading. The latest stable version is 5.96: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2006-05/msg1.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils

Re: tty_ioctl man page needs revision

this page. I'm not sure where to look for the correct upstream source, but maybe Google will turn up something. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: ln.exe bug

that a Windows port is inherently limited by Windows restrictions - Windows does not provide a clean API for creating hard links on non-NTFS systems. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

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