On 3/20/24 14:43, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 3/17/24 07:10, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Now, extending "exchange" to more arguments is confusing and the
> use is not intuitive:
>mv -v --exchange a b c d
It's also pointless. An atomic exchange on more than 2 files ISN'T ATOMIC.
That's why I didn't
On 3/4/24 18:43, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Adding Rob to the loop because this impacts compatibility with
> toybox/maybe busybox implementations
> (Quoting in full for convenience, there's a few more mails in
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2024-03/msg2.html
> but we
On 3/2/24 05:01, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Ok so there seems to be a bit of consensus for adding this to mv.
...
> So how about -x,--swap as the short and long options?
Works for me.
> Should we add this to install(1) ?
No opinion.
Rob
On 3/1/24 05:05, Petr Malat wrote:
> Hi!
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 09:18:31AM +, Padraig Brady wrote:
>> On 29/02/2024 22:02, Petr Malat wrote:
>> > renameat2() syscall allows atomically swapping 2 paths on one
>> > file system. Expose this ability to the user using -s option.
>> >
>> > *
On 3/1/24 03:18, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 29/02/2024 22:02, Petr Malat wrote:
>> renameat2() syscall allows atomically swapping 2 paths on one
>> file system. Expose this ability to the user using -s option.
>>
>> * NEWS: Mention the new option
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> That was suggested
On 10/19/23 23:10, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2023-10-20 05:56, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2023-10-19 20:42, Dragan Simic wrote:
>>> On 2023-10-20 01:22, Rusty Duplessis wrote:
Would be nice to have an option to append a / to the end of directory
names, so that you can distinguish between a
On 10/17/23 12:05, Parke wrote:
>> On 10/16/23 16:50, Parke wrote:
>> > I am contemplating extending ls so that mountpoints can be colorized
>> > (via LS_COLORS).
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 2:30 AM Rob Landley wrote:
>> But not -F ?
>
> I had forg
On 10/16/23 16:50, Parke wrote:
> Hello, coreutils@gnu.org,
>
> I am contemplating extending ls so that mountpoints can be colorized
> (via LS_COLORS).
But not -F ?
> I'm hoping that a mountpoint can be detected by comparing the st_dev
> fields returned by calling stat() on a directory and on
On 9/24/23 01:37, James Feeney via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
> Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh.
No, people used to regularly boggle at why info still exists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/240mle/why_does_gnu_cling_to_info/
On 9/7/23 13:59, Eric Blake wrote:
> now that Issue 8 has taken efforts to make it clear that sometimes the
> shell deals with characters, and sometimes with bytes; in particular,
> environment variables can hold bytes that need not always form
> characters in the current locale).
If they didn't
On 9/6/23 05:28, Dragan Simic wrote:
> Thank you for this detailed clarification. It's good to know that the
> 2013, 2016 and 2018 versions/revisions of POSIX actually don't count.
You didn't change the URL. You didn't update the SUSvX number. It's still says
"issue 7" at the top. That's YOU
On 9/5/23 15:44, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/5/23 4:32 PM, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2023-09-05 22:25, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> On 9/5/23 3:58 PM, enh wrote:
On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 6:59 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
>>>
> I think you'll find that, regardless of its origins, there are more
>
On 8/31/23 13:31, Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX Issue 8 will be obsoleting %b (escape sequence interpolation) so
> that future Issue 9 can change to having %b (binary literal output)
> that aligns with C2x.
I.E. you sent an RFC to that effect to the posix list earlier today, and so far
the only reply
On 8/25/23 08:18, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 25/08/2023 03:48, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote:
>> About five months ago, I posted an env feature request on this list:
>> the ability to set the value of argv[0].
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-03/msg2.html
>>
>> I
On 8/15/23 06:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/08/2023 11:22, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2023-08-10 17:05, Dragan Simic wrote:
>>> On 2023-08-01 20:37, Dragan Simic wrote:
On 2023-08-01 16:42, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/08/2023 10:07, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> Add new command-line
On 8/15/23 05:08, Budi wrote:
> so many did and hoped, the most recent:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76892900/sort-text-page-based-on-5th-column-out-of-6-columns-being-troubled-with-as-the
I implemented negative keys and came up with some basic tests for them:
On 8/14/23 01:56, Renaud Pacalet wrote:
> On 13/08/2023 17:09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 13/08/2023 15:40, Renaud Pacalet wrote:
>>> I am a bit surprised that it has never been suggested before but I could
>>> not find any trace of it, so here it is:
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to specify the
On 8/1/23 04:07, Dragan Simic wrote:
> Add new command-line option and the required logic that allow multiple
> consecutive delimiters to be treated as a single delimiter. Of course,
> this option is valid only with the cut's field mode.
>
> This new feature should make cut much more usable in
On 7/26/23 17:32, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 26/07/2023 15:55, Dröge, Lars wrote:
>> Dear coreutils developers,
>>
>> I have read many tutorials, where a secret is written to a file, which
>> is protected afterwards, like this:
>>
>> ```
>> generate_secret > keyfile
>> chmod 0600 keyfile
>>
On 5/6/23 09:48, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> As mentioned in the coreutils gotchas, rm cannot always delete directory
> hierarchies.
>
> I'm sure the folks on this list could write
>
> $ find -type d -exec chmod +wx {} +
>
> in their sleep but it's not the most obvious way out of unwritable
>
On 2/21/23 19:34, Alex Colomar wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 2/21/23 18:00, Rob Landley wrote:
>> If you're going to tell people to learn something new: 1<<10 is a kilobyte,
>> 1<<20 is a megabyte, 1<<30 is a gigabyte, and so on. I've sometimes used
>
On 2/20/23 09:35, Alex Colomar wrote:
> On 2/20/23 15:29, Stefan Puiu wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
>>> 4 KiB is not that much better than 4096, since 4096 is easy to read.
>>> For higher numbers such as 33554432, it becomes more important to use 32
>>> KiB.
>>> For consistency, using 4
On 2/9/23 10:33, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 09/02/2023 16:28, Peng Yu wrote:
>> OK.
>>
>> I see the following output of `sudo dtruss mkdir -p d`. So
>> essentially, coreutils first calls system function mkdir to make the
>> directory. On error of the system call, it will check the target is a
>>
On 2/4/23 07:51, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> --raw output is the most composable format, and also is a
> robust way to discard the file name without parsing (escaped) output.
Just FYI, 9 years ago I taught toybox md5sum/sha1sum to use -b as "brief", and
the same option has been in our sha3sum and so
On 12/9/22 08:26, Carl Edquist via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote:
>>> Similar to the situation here, i was seeing things annoyingly look like
>>> they are still 'alive' longer than they ought to be when providing
>>> input from the terminal.
>>
>> Huh, I never tried that, honestly.
>
>
On 9/12/22 10:35, J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to clone a machine.
>
> The source and target machines are identical in every way, they have the
> same hardware and memory.
>
> I am using a live-dvd to boot the source machine, and then run the
> following command from a third machine (a
On 5/4/22 02:28, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Thanks. I don't care much about what the short option is, but it's quite
> important for my use case that it does have a short form. Given the
> NetBSD precedent [1], I think -h is fine. We can make the long option
> --human-readable or --exponents, I
On 4/25/22 11:42, konsolebox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 23:56 Pádraig Brady, wrote:
>
>> On 25/04/2022 15:32, konsolebox wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 20:45 Pádraig Brady, > p...@draigbrady.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 24/04/2022 11:45, konsolebox wrote:
>> > > But this could
On 4/24/22 05:45, konsolebox wrote:
> A command like this doesn't display data:
>
> tail -f /var/log/messages -n +1 | grep -e something --line-buffered | tail
>
> probably because the last tail waits for the pipe to terminate.
>
> But this could work if there exists an option like -S which
On 4/9/22 09:16, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 0 new test failures on Solaris 10 on SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
I take it the cut -DF support fell by the wayside?
Rob
On 3/24/22 10:26 AM, Fariya F wrote:
> Thank you for all the inputs.
>
> I have a question what is the meaning of overhead block (its different from
> reserved block) and how the number of overhead blocks is calculated?
Not really a df/coreutils question. The command fetches info from the
On 3/22/22 11:50 AM, Fariya F wrote:
>
>
> This is a 32 bit hardware. This partition has private data in here.
Wild guess: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fe23cb65c2c3
Rob
On 3/22/22 9:12 AM, Fariya F wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The version of df command is 1.85.
> Kernel version 4.9.31
A 2016 release, plus bugfixes.
$ git log --no-merges v4.9..master fs/ext4 | grep ^commit | wc -l
1213
Bit of water under that bridge in the past 8 years.
> The fsck check on that partition
On 2/9/22 3:28 AM, Nikos Papaspyrou wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 9:14 AM Nikos Papaspyrou wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:30 AM Bernhard Voelker
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > More specifically, lines ending with carriage return are sent to the
>> > > standard output but not to the files.
>>
On 2/9/22 1:30 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2/9/22 04:27, Nikos Papaspyrou wrote:
>> Notice that the LOG file contains more than can be seen in the standard
>> output. Three lines were printed with progress information, each starting
>> with a carriage return character (0d). Only the last one
On 1/25/22 3:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 25/01/2022 07:55, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here's an updated patch for "cut -DF".
>> Since it's a new code path, it opens the possibility of finally
>> supporting multibyte characters with "cut -c".
>>
>>
>> comments very welcomed,
>>
On 1/25/22 1:55 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's an updated patch for "cut -DF".
> Since it's a new code path, it opens the possibility of finally
> supporting multibyte characters with "cut -c".
Don't forget -nb (posix!). Toybox's rounds down to the start of character for
both
On 1/15/22 6:20 AM, Shehu Dikko wrote:
> * Pádraig Brady [2022-01-15] [gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general]:
>> On 15/01/2022 08:44, Shehu Dikko wrote:
>>> []
>>> $ echo one two three four five six seven eight nine | cut -DF 1,5-$
>>> one five six seven eight nine
>>>
>>> Do please also add the
On 1/7/22 9:06 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I'm not sure about the --allow-duplicates long option for -D,
> as the duplicate aspect is not the only or even the most important
> aspect of that mode. I do like it matches the "-D", though I
> don't like "-D" was used for this as I mentioned
On 1/6/22 5:02 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2022-01-06 7:35 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Thanks for taking the time to consolidate options/functionality
>> across different implementations. This is important for users.
>> Some notes below...
>>
&g
On 1/5/22 2:19 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> This is working and in use in Android, and now in busybox, and it would
>> simplify
>> my regression test suite if coreutils was in sync, so I thought I'd ask if
>> you
>> were interested.
>>
>
> I personally like the idea (at the very list "-D" will
Around 5 years ago toybox added the -D, -F, and -O options to cut:
-D Don't sort/collate selections or match -fF lines without delimiter
-F Select fields separated by DELIM regex
-O Output delimiter (default one space for -F, input delim for -f)
This lets you do:
$ echo one two
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