Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src
On my unix FreeBSD 6.3 mkdir -p /11/src /234/src /adsv/src rm -rf /*/src Deletes all src sub directories for in directory On WinXP SP2: C:\>c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\mkdir -p /11/src /234/src /adsv/src C:\>c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm -rf /*/src c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm: rm: can not run lstat for `/*/src': Invalid argument Last week I have downloaded latest GetGnuWin32 and have downloaded all new unilities http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32 I do not know which version of coreutils I have. and where I can update them if I have old... - Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:06 PM Subject: Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/10/2008 6:28 AM: | rm -rdf */*/src rm -d is deprecated. It does nothing, and you should not need to use it. ~ Newer coreutils don't even document it; the NEWS for 6.0 states: ~ rm's --directory (-d) option is scheduled for removal in 2006. This ~ option has been silently ignored since coreutils 5.0. On systems ~ that support unlinking of directories, you can use the "unlink" ~ command to unlink a directory. (Hmm, now that it's 2008, maybe it's time to make 'rm -d' issue a failure, rather than being silently ignored.) | does not remove directories like this: | a/b/src | a/c/src | b/d/src It works just fine for me: $ mkdir -p a/b/src a/c/src b/d/src $ echo ?/?/src a/b/src a/c/src b/d/src $ rm -rf ?/?/src $ echo ?/?/src ?/?/src | | but on unix, win32/cygwin rm works OK That sentence didn't make sense. What version of coreutils are you complaining about, and on what platform? Maybe it is time for you to do an upgrade; the latest stable version is 6.10, with 6.11 due out soon. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf+EMAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCTNgCg0dgNf81DcIHMThIzgkZWEhPo 06kAn032Bj9PybzzdRdK5wS1Fnw8TIXC =vhtJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/11/2008 1:51 AM: | C:\>c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm -rf /*/src | c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm: rm: can not run lstat for `/*/src': | Invalid argument | | Last week I have downloaded latest GetGnuWin32 and have downloaded all | new unilities | http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32 gnuwin32 is an old, and notoriously broken, port. | I do not know which version of coreutils I have. What does rm --version say? | and where I can update | them if I have old... I would suggest using cygwin instead (see cygwin.com), which has no problems with this example, and which is actively maintained to the current stable release of 6.10. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf/UkcACgkQ84KuGfSFAYB1awCgsjqO8VUFGGh6PH6FxmP7JnbM xK0AoMchj5ukDsRJq4Jom8dvg/eXj76P =Nypp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
[PATCH] Add new program: zargs
Hi,
This is a much trimmed-back version of the program I previously
submitted as `magic'.
Thanks to Bob Proulx for the feedback.
The zargs program automatically decompresses inputs to a program.
$ zargs wc input/*
177 9766908 /tmp/zargsE0oy5L/TODO.bz2
177 9766908 /tmp/zargsE0oy5L/TODO.gz
177 9766908 input/TODO.txt
5312928 20724 total
Thanks,
Bo
From 42e176d01982f038f12859880c530d3a49a5f4ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:54:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: zargs
* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Advertise new program.
* README: List new program.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe new program.
* man/Makefile.am: Add new program.
* man/zargs.x: Add new man page template.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add new program.
* src/Makefile.am: Add new program.
* src/zargs.c: Add new program.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am: Add new test.
* tests/misc/help-version: Accomodate new program.
* tests/misc/zargs: Test new program.
Signed-off-by: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
AUTHORS |1 +
NEWS|3 +
README |1 +
doc/coreutils.texi | 74 -
man/Makefile.am |1 +
man/zargs.x |4 +
po/POTFILES.in |1 +
src/Makefile.am |2 +-
src/zargs.c | 910 +++
tests/misc/Makefile.am |3 +-
tests/misc/help-version |1 +
tests/misc/zargs| 82 +
12 files changed, 1079 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 man/zargs.x
create mode 100644 src/zargs.c
create mode 100755 tests/misc/zargs
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 807857f..5c1c6d1 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -100,3 +100,4 @@ wc: Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie
who: Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, Michael Stone
whoami: Richard Mlynarik
yes: David MacKenzie
+zargs: Bo Borgerson
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e208b30..69f548f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS-*- outline -*-
Fix a non-portable use of sed in configure.ac.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.92]
+** New programs
+
+zargs: run a program with automatically decompressed inputs
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.92 (2008-01-12) [beta]
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7a608f4..4092411 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ The programs that can be built with this package are:
runcon seq sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf
sleep sort split stat stty su sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true
tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
+ zargs
See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5a6f2c3..348ec30 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
* who: (coreutils)who invocation. Print who is logged in.
* whoami: (coreutils)whoami invocation. Print effective user ID.
* yes: (coreutils)yes invocation. Print a string indefinitely.
+* zargs: (coreutils)zargs invocation. Run with decompressed inputs.
@end direntry
@copying
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ Free Documentation License''.
* Working context::pwd stty printenv tty
* User information:: id logname whoami groups users who
* System context:: date uname hostname hostid
-* Modified command invocation::chroot env nice nohup su
+* Modified command invocation::chroot env nice nohup su zargs
* Process control::kill
* Delaying:: sleep
* Numeric operations:: factor seq
@@ -421,6 +422,7 @@ Modified command invocation
* nice invocation:: Run a command with modified niceness
* nohup invocation:: Run a command immune to hangups
* su invocation::Run a command with substitute user and group ID
+* zargs invocation:: Run a command with decompressed inputs
Process control
@@ -680,7 +682,8 @@ meanings with the values @samp{0} and @samp{1}.
Here are some of the exceptions:
@command{chroot}, @command{env}, @command{expr},
@command{nice}, @command{nohup}, @command{printenv},
[EMAIL PROTECTED], @command{su}, @command{test}, @command{tty}.
[EMAIL PROTECTED], @command{su}, @command{test}, @command{tty},
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
@node Backup options
@@ -13358,6 +13361,7 @@ user, etc.
* nice invocation:: Modify niceness.
* nohup invocation::Immunize to hangups.
* su invocation:: Modify user and group ID.
+* zargs invocation::Pipe compressed inputs through decompressors.
@end menu
@@ -13509,6 +13513,72 @@ Exit status:
the exit status of @var{command} otherwise
@end display
[EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src
I would suggest using cygwin instead (see cygwin.com), We are, but it conflicts with Postgres I do not know how, but PG do not recomed it to install on the same machine because of unstability =( So we are looking for alternatives... - Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:57 PM Subject: Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/11/2008 1:51 AM: | C:\>c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm -rf /*/src | c:\progra~1\gnuwin32\bin\rm: rm: can not run lstat for `/*/src': | Invalid argument | | Last week I have downloaded latest GetGnuWin32 and have downloaded all | new unilities | http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32 gnuwin32 is an old, and notoriously broken, port. | I do not know which version of coreutils I have. What does rm --version say? | and where I can update | them if I have old... I would suggest using cygwin instead (see cygwin.com), which has no problems with this example, and which is actively maintained to the current stable release of 6.10. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf/UkcACgkQ84KuGfSFAYB1awCgsjqO8VUFGGh6PH6FxmP7JnbM xK0AoMchj5ukDsRJq4Jom8dvg/eXj76P =Nypp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/11/2008 10:33 AM: |> I would suggest using cygwin instead (see cygwin.com), | We are, but it conflicts with Postgres | I do not know how, but PG do not recomed it to install on the same | machine because of unstability =( Doesn't cygwin also come with an SQL server solution, pre-compiled, which works with the cygwin port of coreutils? But at this point, you are better off asking about this on the cygwin list; it appears your questions are no longer about an actual upstream coreutils problem, but a question of the best Windows port to use, and the windows-specific mailing lists are a better resource. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf/t4sACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDzwACfX7DiOqcNpM9SyajP6oWF3xGt 0h4An18AFIUUbiWYbX9/OS/Wf7H8RPSt =fIYp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
