expr won't match empty strings

2014-08-02 Thread Luke Kendall
I'm hesitant to report this, but I think it's an actual bug in expr that's been there from day one. I believe that expr, when used to match regular expressions, should use the success/failure of the pattern match to determine the exit code. But instead, I believe expr uses the length of the

Re: expr won't match empty strings

2014-08-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/02/2014 06:03 AM, Luke Kendall wrote: I'm hesitant to report this, but I think it's an actual bug in expr that's been there from day one. I believe that expr, when used to match regular expressions, should use the success/failure of the pattern match to determine the exit code.

Re: expr won't match empty strings

2014-08-02 Thread Luke Kendall
On 02/08/14 20:40, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/02/2014 06:03 AM, Luke Kendall wrote: I'm hesitant to report this, but I think it's an actual bug in expr that's been there from day one. I believe that expr, when used to match regular expressions, should use the success/failure of the pattern

Re: bug#17505: dd statistics output

2014-08-02 Thread Linda Walsh
Henrik Juul Pedersen wrote: Christian Groessler writes: 268435456 bytes (256 MB) copied, ... This would be a clear violation of the SI standard, which says on its prefixes: I've given this some though and now feel that the SI system is inappropriate for computer base-2 units (bytes,

bug#18177: chroot: No such file or directory message is so confusing

2014-08-02 Thread T R
chroot: Failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory This needs to be updated with more information. It pops up when: 1) The file is actually not there 2) The file's dependent libraries are not there 3) The file and its libraries are there, but it can't run for some

bug#18178: help

2014-08-02 Thread Jermaine Golding
Good Day; I just deleted over 100gigs of logs and my var partition is still at 100%. Please advise I am using checkpoint gaia. [Expert@Fwall:0]# df --h df: option `--h' is ambiguous Try `df --help' for more information. [Expert@Fwall:0]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted

bug#18177: chroot: No such file or directory message is so confusing

2014-08-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 18177 notabug close 18177 stop On 08/03/2014 03:19 AM, T R wrote: chroot: Failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory This needs to be updated with more information. It pops up when: 1) The file is actually not there 2) The file's dependent libraries are not

bug#18178: help

2014-08-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 18178 notabug close 18178 stop On 08/03/2014 04:31 AM, Jermaine Golding wrote: Good Day; I just deleted over 100gigs of logs and my var partition is still at 100%. Please advise I am using checkpoint gaia. [Expert@Fwall:0]# df --h df: option `--h' is ambiguous Try `df --help' for