Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Galos, David
> I also see it a lot in scripts, along with using full options instead > of short--perhaps to be more verbose? So, for compatibility, perhaps it > is best to allow both. If you mean GNU --long-options, then never in a million years :) If you mean both dashed and non, that is likely what I will do.

[dev] [sbase] afgets

2013-07-06 Thread Truls Becken
Greetings. In afgets() the size variable is never updated, which usually means it is always zero, in which case it has no purpose at all. I believe it is supposed to be updated on realloc? This way, calling afgets multiple times with the same arguments will reuse the space if possible. Also, the

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
>I would suggest a subset of POSIX tar options. It could be possibly >amended with "z", "Z", "j" and "J" options, though using > >A $ tar c dirname | gzip -9c > filename.tar.gz > >or > >A $ tar cf - dirname | gzip -9c > filename.tar.gz I usually use: gunzip < fil

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Truls Becken
On 2013-07-06, at 12:15, David Galos wrote: > In short, how do you fine folks invoke your tar? My habit relays on compression scheme detection: tar cf foo.txz ~/stuff tar xf bar.tbz -Truls

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
On Jul 6, 2013 5:04 PM, "Andrew Hills" wrote: > > So, for compatibility, perhaps it is best to allow both. You mean the whole lot of GNU tar long options including filename rewriting and masks? I don't see any way such implementation could fit "suckless" principles. I would suggest a subset of P

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Andrew Hills
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 10:59:36 -0400 Alex Pilon wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: > > Apparently is there anybody who uses dashes in tar's keys? > > Yeah. Old habit. I also see it a lot in scripts, along with using full options instead of short--perhaps to b

Re: [dev] Issue with DWM and x-terminal-emulator launching

2013-07-06 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-07-06 10:52, Adam Brand wrote: > The problem ended up being that the Terminus font wasn't installed. Maybe a > good add to the requirements for install (xfonts-terminus)? There is no "requirements" file, what do you mean? If you are talking about package dependencies, the package has nothi

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 01:29:02PM +0200, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: > Apparently is there anybody who uses dashes in tar's keys? Yeah. Old habit.

Re: [dev] Issue with DWM and x-terminal-emulator launching

2013-07-06 Thread Adam Brand
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:40 AM, sekret wrote: > * Adam Brand [06.07.2013 01:12]: > > It's only alt-shift-enter; if I do alt-p then run st (or lxterm or > > whatever) things work fine. > > The question is: What's in your config.h for this key combination > Alt-Shift-Enter? > > Launching the termi

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Bryan
On 06/07/2013 8:30 PM, "Daniel Bryan" wrote: > > tar xzf filename.tar.gz ~/scratch/ Sorry, this should have been: > tar xzf filename.tar.gz -C ~/scratch/

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
Apparently is there anybody who uses dashes in tar's keys? Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread v4hn
Also $ tar cjf file.tar.bz2 folder $ tar cJf file.tar.xz folder and $ tar xf filename.tar. On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 08:30:39PM +1000, Daniel Bryan wrote: > tar xzf filename.tar.gz ~/scratch/ > On 06/07/2013 8:20 PM, "Dmitrij Czarkoff" wrote: > > > On Jul 6, 2013 12:16 PM, "Galos, David" > > w

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel Bryan
tar xzf filename.tar.gz ~/scratch/ On 06/07/2013 8:20 PM, "Dmitrij Czarkoff" wrote: > On Jul 6, 2013 12:16 PM, "Galos, David" > wrote: > > > > In short, how do you fine folks invoke your tar? > > $ tar czf filename.tar.gz foldername > $ tar tzf filename.tar.gz > $ tar xzf filename.tar.gz > > ---

Re: [dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
On Jul 6, 2013 12:16 PM, "Galos, David" wrote: > > In short, how do you fine folks invoke your tar? $ tar czf filename.tar.gz foldername $ tar tzf filename.tar.gz $ tar xzf filename.tar.gz Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

[dev] [sbase] Adding tar

2013-07-06 Thread Galos, David
The attached patch shows my current work on adapting sltar to sbase. It is functional, but, there are still open questions regarding tar. The big deal is the argument parsing: I would like to use the ARG macros in tar, but I'm not sure how that fits with the average tar invocation. In short, how