dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
Hello, I am using dd (coreutils) 8.11 on a GNU/Linux operating system. I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output error 6160537+0 records in

Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/28/2012 11:41 AM, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: Hello, I am using dd (coreutils) 8.11 on a GNU/Linux operating system. I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync dd: writing to

Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 12/28/2012 12:41 PM, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output error 6160537+0 records in 6160536+0 records

Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 28 December 2012 06:41:02 YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output error 6160537+0 records in

Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/28/2012 04:29 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 12/28/2012 12:41 PM, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Input/output

Re: dd: it doesn't continue after errors

2012-12-28 Thread YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:01:59 -0500 Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 28 December 2012 06:41:02 YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: I am trying to blank a 160 GB hard disk drive but I got an error and dd doesn't want to continue: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

bug#13288: charset in man ls

2012-12-28 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 13288 notabug stop On 12/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mario Bachmann wrote: Hello there, if I type man ls in a terminal, i get characters of german language. We have äöüß ÄÖÜẞ I hopefully use a unicode gentoo linux. # locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8

bug#13295: Possible bug - tr utility

2012-12-28 Thread Killen, Randy
Hello - I encountered the situation shown below so thought that I would report it to see if it might be a bug or is expected behavior. Please let me know if you need additional information. Randy $ $ echo something | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] SOMETHING $ echo something | tr '[:lower:]'

bug#13300: tail - backwards compatibility (tail +$line $filename)

2012-12-28 Thread Martyn Hare
Dear Sir/Madam, I think I've found a backwards-compatibility issue with tail. I know that invoking tail without the -n argument when skipping lines (`tail +10 file.txt`) is bad syntax, but it needs to be supported for backwards-compatibility. For example, the Unreal Tournament GOTY installer

bug#13301: patch to preserve field order in cut

2012-12-28 Thread Brad Cater
Hello I found that echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f1,2 gives the same result as echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f2,1 This means that it's necessary to use another process to re-order columns. I have written a patch for cut.c included in coreutils-8.20 ( http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.20.tar.xz)

bug#13300: tail - backwards compatibility (tail +$line $filename)

2012-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
tag -1 notabug close -1 thanks Martyn Hare wrote: I think I've found a backwards-compatibility issue with tail. I know that invoking tail without the -n argument when skipping lines (`tail +10 file.txt`) is bad syntax, but it needs to be supported for backwards-compatibility. Any chance

bug#13295: Possible bug - tr utility

2012-12-28 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi Randy, On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, Killen, Randy wrote: Hello - I encountered the situation shown below so thought that I would report it to see if it might be a bug or is expected behavior. Please let me know if you need additional information. Randy $ $ echo something | tr [:lower:]

bug#13295: Possible bug - tr utility

2012-12-28 Thread Killen, Randy
Thanks Erik. That does help. Randy -Original Message- From: Erik Auerswald [mailto:auers...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 3:47 PM To: Killen, Randy; 13...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#13295: Possible bug - tr utility Hi Randy, On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, Killen,

bug#13301: patch to preserve field order in cut

2012-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 13301 wishlist thanks Brad Cater wrote: I found that echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f1,2 gives the same result as echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f2,1 This is because 'cut' has always behaved that way way back forty years for forever. So people like me don't consider it a bug. It is just the way it