Re: HELP

2008-04-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Bauke Jan Douma wrote on 11-04-08 00:04: dharini sutharsan wrote on 10-04-08 21:37: hello sir am running SLEUTH code in cygwin unix emulator and i want to use the chmod option for write permission can u suggest how to change the write permissions I certainly can, by giving you read permis

Re: HELP

2008-04-10 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
dharini sutharsan wrote on 10-04-08 21:37: hello sir am running SLEUTH code in cygwin unix emulator and i want to use the chmod option for write permission can u suggest how to change the write permissions I certainly can, by giving you read permission of output from ls(1), 'info ls' or 'ls

HELP

2008-04-10 Thread dharini sutharsan
hello sir am running SLEUTH code in cygwin unix emulator and i want to use the chmod option for write permission can u suggest how to change the write permissions regards Dharini ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.or

Re: Thoughts on cut

2008-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marc Perkel on 4/10/2008 12:23 PM: | I'm not sure if this feature request would be disruptive or not but it | would be handy. | | If I run cut -f 2,1 it would be nice if it put the fields out in the | order specified. Put field 2 out, the

Thoughts on cut

2008-04-10 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm not sure if this feature request would be disruptive or not but it would be handy. If I run cut -f 2,1 it would be nice if it put the fields out in the order specified. Put field 2 out, then field 1. Thoughts? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-10 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like this sort of general purpose utility that can work with a broad > set of things much better than hacks to every utility. It is > definitely a better direction. > > But I don't like the name. The name is too generic

Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src

2008-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-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 sc

BUG rm -rdf */*/src

2008-04-10 Thread Eugen.Konkov
rm -rdf */*/src does not remove directories like this: a/b/src a/c/src b/d/src but on unix, win32/cygwin rm works OK ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Fales
On Irix 6.5, we're still using gcc-2.95.3, but on Solaris 8 (both sparc and x86) we're using gcc-3.4.6 and the same problem shows up there. (However, it does not show up on linux with gcc-3.4.6) On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:28:35PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Fales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm testing the latest coreutils snapshot (6.10.176-383b1) on several >> platforms and on three of them, the seq command is failing in "make check" >> >> On Solaris 8 (sparc), Solaris 8 (intel), and SGI Irix 6.2, t

Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> | So far, it includes the following utilities: >> | - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file > > Eh? That sounds like 'cat > file'... I was wondering that too. It basically buffers the file in mem so that one can modify a file thro