Hello Pádraig,
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 01:26:21PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 20/06/2021 21:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >On 20/06/2021 15:54, Nikolay Nechaev wrote:
> >> [...]
> Nikolay your response to the list didn't make it to my email
> (I noticed it by chance in looking at the archives).
Hello Pádraig,
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 01:26:21PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 20/06/2021 21:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >On 20/06/2021 15:54, Nikolay Nechaev wrote:
> >> [...]
> Nikolay your response to the list didn't make it to my email
> (I noticed it by chance in looking at the archives).
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:47:34PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I'm currently using version-sort in order to get integers sorted
> in strings (due to the lack of simple numeric sort like in zsh),
> but I've noticed some ugliness. This may be bugs, not I'm not sure
This seems to be quite co
Hi,
On 11.04.21 04:13, Ice Ninja wrote:
I cannot explain why a hyphen - can change the sorting order.
$ sort -V <<<'2.yamlmode
2.1.yamlmode
2.1.yaml-mode
2.yaml-mode'
2.yamlmode
2.1.yamlmode
2.1.yaml-mode
2.yaml-mode
I assume the following result is expected.
2.yamlmode
2.1.yamlmode
2.yaml-mod
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 04:43:21PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>
> I have just tried to build coreutils from a git checkout, but the
> build failed for "env":
> [...]
> I assume that "git pull" is sufficient to update a working, i.e.,
> bootstrapped, gi
Hi,
I have just tried to build coreutils from a git checkout, but the
build failed for "env":
8<
src/env.c:284:14: warning: implicit declaration of function 'xpalloc';
did you mean 'xcallo'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
ss->argv = xpalloc (ss->argv, &ss->half_alloc, 1,
Hi,
On 30.01.21 21:28, Eric Fischer wrote:
A couple of years ago I went down this route of thinking I would add CSV
support to sort, and then let myself get distracted into trying to follow
https://paulfitz.github.io/2017/01/24/the-year-of-poop-on-the-desktop.html
Well, but not everyone is usi
Hi,
On 30.01.21 18:36, ✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor wrote:
Le sam. 30 janv. 2021 à 17:58, yon ar c'hall a
écrit :
I'm planning to make some changes to the sort utility for supporting the
CSV file format, in particular about quoting, as described in RFC 4180.
Actually I’d prefer to
Hi Chris,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:00:41PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> On 1/21/21 10:41 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:06:01PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:
> >>All the examples you gave in your previous email work on (I'd say) 99% of
> >>*nix systems.
> >>
> >>
Hi all,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 07:37:16PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> [...] I have to work on systems with RHEL 5 (yes, 5) and OSX, and
> of course I don't expect those to accept tee -q any soon, but my best
> bet to see a decent alternative some day is to write it today.
User
Hi all,
On 12.01.21 16:55, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 1/12/21 3:20 PM, Mourad Bougarne wrote:
I know that there's a command option to create a directory if not exists
using mkdir -p DIRECTORY_NAME, but what I suggest is create a directory if
not exists when we change it, so:
$ cd non-exists-d
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 03:12:14PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/12/2020 11:56, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote:
> >
> > I was surprised to discover that df ignores the reserved space set
> > by tune2fs -m It's nice, but it would be nicer still to document it.
>
> I think you're saying that
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:35:02PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > jens wrote:
> > > It would make shell scripts that use sha256sum much simpler. Currently it
> > > is necessary to split the output of sha256sum to obtain the hash, which
> > > usually requires an additional comma
Hello Jeffrey,
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:18:45AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> The BLAKE2 folks have optimized implementations for b2sum on i686,
> x86_64, NEON and PowerPC. It also has more options than the coreutils
> version.
>
> I'd like to disable b2sum in coreutils and use the BLAKE2 team
Hi all,
another way to quickly find this information about the GNU Coreutils
programs is to look at the "table of contents" of the online
documentation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html
As can be gleaned from the short descriptions there, most GNU Coreutils
progr
Hi,
when trying to build GNU Coreutils from git on Ubuntu 18.04 I get the
following error:
[...]
CC lib/acl-internal.o
lib/acl-internal.c: In function 'free_permission_context':
lib/acl-internal.c:479:1: error: function might be candidate for attribute
'const' [-Werror=su
Hello turgut,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:14:04PM +0300, turgut kalfaoğlu wrote:
> I would like to suggest and in fact volunteer to create a conf file
> option to 'dd'.
>
> It has dozens of hard to remember options, and there are some that I
> would like to use all the time.
>
> For example, I am
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 06:25:45PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 27/02/2020 18:23, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >We plan to release coreutils-8.32 in the coming week
> >so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> >would be most welcome.
>
> All tests pass on:
>
Hello Bernhard,
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi Padraig,
>
> On 1/20/20 12:52 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >I plan to do one in the next few weeks
>
> on openSUSE:Tumbleweed with glibc-2.30, I'm getting the following errors.
>
> CC lib/nproc.o
>
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 02:52:23PM -0400, Chaya Tova Chrein wrote:
> How do I remove a directory that is not empty?
Either by manually deleting the directory's contents before removing
the directory, or by using the "rm" command with the "-r" option:
rm -r
Thanks,
Erik
--
And at the en
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> [...]
> Maybe --quiet could be used to skip outputting file names.
I don't think overloading --quiet this way is helpful.
Changing *sum's output format should use a new option IMHO (if one wants
to add this functionality an
Hello Paul,
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:46:28PM +, Bartells, Paul wrote:
> Thanks for responding, Kaz. What you observed is true. There is a disconnect
> between the command line and the listing I provided. Apparently I picked up
> the wrong listing. There was an extra "/*" in the command li
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 02:22:42PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote:
> On 2019-03-17 05:27, Ed Neville wrote:
> >Taking suggestions into account, '--no-headers' seems more consistent
> >with ps options.
>
> This loses on character count:
>
> df --no-headers
> df | sed 1d
>
> Fully golfed
Hi,
On 11/19/18 02:08, L A Walsh wrote:
On 11/14/2018 12:27 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 06:32:55PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
I have a bunch of files numbered from 1-over 2000 without leading zeros
(think rfc's)...
They have names with a non-numeric prefix & suff
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 04:36:44AM -0600, Mike Hodson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:24 AM L A Walsh wrote:
>
> > In the case of creating a link to a directory there is
> > no choice in creating a "working solution". If you want a link
> > there, it HAS to be a symlink. That the user w
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 07/14/2018 07:51 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> > Paul Eggert wrote:
> >> On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> >>> I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are
> >>> wrong and do nothing useful? Why not
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:37:54AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Your test failure was:
> > FAIL: test-rwlock1
> > ==
> > Unexpected outcome 3
> > FAIL test-rwlock1 (exit status: 134)
> > which is due to glthread_create() failing.
> > CC'ing gnul
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:09:21PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:43:55PM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > We plan to release coreutils-8.30 in the coming week
> > so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> >
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:43:55PM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We plan to release coreutils-8.30 in the coming week
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> would be most welcome.
I have tested on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system, there has been one FAIL, an
Hi all,
one obvious problem is that the "escape" quoting style does not[*]
escape the single quote, see below.
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:16:14PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote:
> On 2018-05-13 09:30, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> >On 5/13/18 1:08 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> >> [...]
> > escape
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 01:11:35PM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> * src/ptx.c (fix_output_parameters): GCC 6.3.1 with
> ./configure --enable-single-binary would give:
> error: assuming signed overflow does not occur
> when simplifying conditional to constant [-Werror=strict-overflow]
>
Hi Assaf,
On 12/01/2017 06:07 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Hmm,
On 2017-11-30 09:37 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
http://files.housegordon.org/tmp/cu-fs.html
I missed the 2015 commit which completely removed the warning
from tail.c ( v8.24-43-ge6b3af6 ), rendering the entire thing irrelevant.
Sorry fo
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:12:57AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this week,
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> would be most welcome.
For what it's worth, the new snapshot did not introduce any n
Hi Pádraig,
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:14:01AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 29/08/17 03:23, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:49:17AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this week,
> >> so any te
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:49:17AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> We plan to release coreutils-8.28 towards the end of this week,
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> would be most welcome.
> [...]
> tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
> cd coreutils-8.27.
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 09:15:43AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/19/2017 08:29 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> > From: Steeve McCauley
> >> I can't believe I'd never thought of reordering output columns like this.
> >> FWIW, I agree that another option should be used to prevent issues with
Hi Lance,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 01:03:59PM -0400, Lance E Sloan wrote:
> [...]
> Even if this feature suggestion isn't approved by the GNU community, I will
> implement it for my own use anyway. I can enjoy the new functionality
> (which I think should have been added to cut long ago) and keep
Hi Andrew,
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> When I follow the instructions from here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html
>
> to clone the coreutils git repository I run into an error, here's my
> terminal output:
>
> $ git --version
>
Hi,
just a nit, there is a typo in an error message...
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 03:57:12PM +0200, Sebastian Kisela wrote:
> [...]
> diff --git a/src/runcon.c b/src/runcon.c
> index 92f519d..9021614 100644
> --- a/src/runcon.c
> +++ b/src/runcon.c
> [...]
> @@ -157,7 +170,15 @@ main (int argc, char
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:27:22PM +0200, Reuti wrote:
> looking in the man page of `dd` for multiplicative suffixes I understand that
> e.g. "K =1024". What I don't understand is the specification:
>
> xM =M GB =1000*1000*1000
>
> between two commas. Is there a comma missing, or is the "x
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:12:45AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > Oops, completely missed that one.
> > I did not associate the wording of the question ("I am having
> > problems with ...") with this type of issue (and coincidentally, the
> > two programs at hand were the o
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:34:34PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 16/04/15 23:01, Paul FM wrote:
> > Many years ago I checked and chmod only changed the MTIME of a file if
> > it needed to make a change to the permissions, now the mtime is changed
> > on every file (even if no change is ne
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:49:19AM +1100, Hal Ashburner wrote:
> ls filters by filename - leading dot -a -A or --ignore pattern
> I have shell script that just shows directories by interposing `test`
> between two calls to ls in a pipeline to give me ls like behavior. Ls
> actually knows the f
Hi,
On 10/12/2013 12:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
[re-adding the list, with permission]
On 10/11/2013 01:53 PM, Reed Underwood wrote:
For example, The Julian Date for 00:30:00.0 January 1, 2013 is
2456293.520833.
If the astronomical term is what you want, then maybe you really do have
a format th
Hi Eric,
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:18:27AM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> to check multiple files I often tend to use 'cat *somefiles*' but it's
> all concatenated and difficult to read, so I switch back to 'head
> -nSOMETHINGBIG *somefiles*' but it's not optimal and I might miss lines
> if a
Hi Jim,
On 09/01/2012 09:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
Erik Auerswald wrote:
...
Good point. Thanks. I'm tempted to remove the build instructions from
README-prereq, and instead to include my autotools-install script under
script and referencing it. WDYT?
I p
Hi Jim,
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:19:19AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 08/30/2012 02:13 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >> Now that we use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, we should require at least
> >> Automake >= 1.11.2; but since all the Automake version until 1.11.5
> >> a
Hi,
On 07/17/2012 05:10 PM, Sami Kerola wrote:
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
[...]
A few things should be changed regardless.
For consistency with other GNU tools:
s/--test/--dry-run/
I changed the option to '-u, --dry-run' which is exact match with mktemp.
I don'
Hi Jim,
On 07/15/2012 06:33 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Erik Auerswald wrote:
On 07/15/2012 03:57 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Remember the strncpy prohibition I added to "make syntax-check"
not too long ago? I exempted the uses in pinky.c and who.c
because those programs don't re
Hi,
On 07/15/2012 03:57 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Remember the strncpy prohibition I added to "make syntax-check"
not too long ago? I exempted the uses in pinky.c and who.c
because those programs don't really matter and their uses were
not obviously bad. Plus, I just didn't feel like it.
Well,
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:44:57PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> [...]
> +dnl Comment this nest line out to use GNULIB_POSIXCHECK during development.
the next
erik
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Hi,
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:05:43AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 08:14 AM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
> >> That leads onto the only other possible implementation I suppose.
> >> I.E. since we don't need to specify skip and skip_bytes together,
> >> the option value could select betwe
Hi,
On 12/22/2011 06:14 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
I want to change how the line number is displayed
~$ echo a | cat -n
1 a
For example, I want it to be shown as
1:a
Although this can be easily done in anything other scripting language,
I'm wondering if there is an even easier way to get it do
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 03:00 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> >
> >> but few people know that hidden within readlink they will find a
> >> file-name canonicalization tool
> >
> > The reason is "readlink" is not a good name for canonicalization.
>
> M
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:10:57AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 10:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> The point is that the separation is not clear.
> >> Even /sbin programs like mkfs.* can be useful to non-root users.
> >> I use a few of those in parted te
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 10:17 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >> Although my OpenSuSE system has e2fsprogs installed, the test
> >> fiemap-perf cannot use it, because /usr/sbin is missing in
> >> my (non-root) user
Hi,
there is a typo in the NEWS entry:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> [...]
> + fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory
> + proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process.
> + Before, rm -rf 4-million-entr
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:22:25AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> schoenfeld / in-medias-res wrote:
> >>From 156d7e829da3ab9d895a275c2cd02e52388bcd0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Patrick Schoenfeld
> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:54:08 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] md5sum: Implemented --pedant
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:13:52AM +0200, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 17:56, Sami Kerola wrote:
> [snip]
> What to do with --test functionality?
Instead of calling rename(oldpath, newpath) call printf("%s -> %s\n",
oldpath, newpath), basically.
Regards,
Erik
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:57:02AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 28/06/11 08:21, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:26:48PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> On 27/06/11 10:11, Sami Kerola wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have been lately maki
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:26:48PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 27/06/11 10:11, Sami Kerola wrote:
> >
> > I have been lately making some util-linux patches and while doing
> > so I found rename command.
> > [...]
>
> I've never used rename actually, instead using find | sed | sh
> in th
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:14:50PM -0500, Luther wrote:
> Normally, when I use md5sum, it's when I download a file and an MD5SUMS
> file that comes with it. This MD5SUMS file usually lists many files
> including the one I downloaded. When I run 'md5sum -c MD5SUMS', I get
> many error messages
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 07:38:19AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> William Plusnick wrote:
> > When I was looking at seq I noticed it did not process escape character in
> > the
> > separator string. This renders it nearly impossible to separate the numbers
> > by
> > tabs in Bash because when
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> The cp/reflink-perm test fails on a btrfs file system:
>
> echo > file2 # file with data
> cp --reflink=auto --preserve --attributes-only file2 empty_copy || fail=1
> test -s empty_copy && fail=1
>
> because with --r
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:57:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> The cp/reflink-perm test fails on a btrfs file system:
> >>
> >> echo > file2 # file with dat
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