Re: how to query filesystem type?

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > [adding coreutils] > > On 07/05/2011 10:28 AM, Jim Edwards wrote: >>> the 'stat -f /path/to/file_system' command can give you the >>> information you want: >>> >>> % stat -c %T -f / >>> ext2/ext3 >>> >>> >> Running this on /tmp/work/$USER on jaguarpf gives >> >> UNKNOWN (0xbd00b

Re: how to query filesystem type?

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
[adding coreutils] On 07/05/2011 10:28 AM, Jim Edwards wrote: >> the 'stat -f /path/to/file_system' command can give you the >> information you want: >> >> % stat -c %T -f / >> ext2/ext3 >> >> > Running this on /tmp/work/$USER on jaguarpf gives > > UNKNOWN (0xbd00bd0) Which version of coreutils?

bug#8961: stdbuf has no effect on some programs

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/04/2011 03:08 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > But I notice that sed no longer supports `setbuf -i0`. > This is because of 3a8e165a which discards the > original stdin and instead fdopens() a new one > to support reading in binary mode on windos. > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=sed.git;a=commit;h

Re: What is the 'associated field'? (about sort)

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/01/2011 07:22 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > The following explanation for coreutils manual is not very clear. > > "Also note that the ‘n’ modifier was applied to the field-end > specifier for the first key. It > would have been equivalent to specify ‘-k 2n,2’ or ‘-k 2n,2n’. All > modifiers e