Re: dircolors enhancement: warn on unknown TERM

2007-07-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The .dir_colors input file for dircolors(1) has a list of terminal > types that are colorizable. It would be helpful to also have an > explicit list in that config file of terminal types that should not be > colorized. Then if the value of $TERM is unknown dir

Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > (&*%&*!@ incorrect reply behaviour... I *hate* having to type out the > address by hand in every post.) Since you are talking to someone who *strongly* opposes munging the Reply-To: header your distress is noted as theatrical and also being self-inflicted since you could easi

Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

2007-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
(&*%&*!@ incorrect reply behaviour... I *hate* having to type out the address by hand in every post.) Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: It happens not infrequently that I want to sort or cut on the final field of a sequence of lines which do not all have the same number of fields. The usu

Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

2007-07-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to have a way to tell cut and sort, and for that matter > anything else which likewise deals with fields, to count them beginning > from the end of the line. > > Is there a way to do this which I have missed? If not, is there a chance > of su

Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > It happens not infrequently that I want to sort or cut on the final > field of a sequence of lines which do not all have the same number of > fields. The usual case is a list of files with full path, where I am > interested only in the filename. There are good alternatives to

Re: Can't set the timezone for "date".

2007-07-22 Thread James Youngman
On 7/22/07, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you were editing the file manually try "Etc/GMT" instead of "GMT" > and it should behave as you expect. However I suggest using "UTC" > instead of "GMT", as in "Etc/UTC". I'll stick with "GMT", I think. It describes the time zone fo

Feature request for cut and/or sort

2007-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
It happens not infrequently that I want to sort or cut on the final field of a sequence of lines which do not all have the same number of fields. The usual case is a list of files with full path, where I am interested only in the filename. The intuitive thing to do is to treat the slash as the th

Re: Can't set the timezone for "date".

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bob! On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:06:11PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I'm having problems with my date. My system is basically Debian > > Sarge GNU/Linux. uname -a gives this: > I have an obligatory response that says Etch is now current stable. :-) > This won't affec

Re: [PATCH] Command line parsing of wc with genparse

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Geng
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Michael Geng wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:02:13AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Geng) wrote: > > > I released version 0.6.6 of genparse which supports > > > internationalization now. A link to the download page > > > and t

dircolors enhancement: warn on unknown TERM

2007-07-22 Thread Ed Avis
The .dir_colors input file for dircolors(1) has a list of terminal types that are colorizable. It would be helpful to also have an explicit list in that config file of terminal types that should not be colorized. Then if the value of $TERM is unknown dircolors can print a warning. If you do