bug#70887: In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option

2024-05-11 Thread Robert Hill
After upgrading coreutils from 9.0 to 9.5, the following change occurred: In coreutils 9.0, the command "cp -Tipruvx /src-dir /dst-dir" requested interactive confirmation before replacing an old destination file with a newer source file, as expected. In coreutils 9.5, the command "cp -Tipruvx /sr

bug#70873: join --return-error-if-any-unmatched-lines

2024-05-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/05/2024 10:14, Dan Jacobson wrote: join should have an option to return an error value in the shell's $? if any lines are not matched. Currently the man page doesn't even mention a return value. So it is not set in stone yet. Currently one must save -v output in a file then use test -s do

bug#70876: Making join Info examples easier to test

2024-05-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Today I tried to run these examples on (info "(coreutils) Paired and unpaired lines") it says: All examples below use the following two (pre-sorted) input files: $ cat file1 $ cat file2 a 1 a A b 2

bug#70874: Don't use two column Info examples, e.g. for join

2024-05-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
I would say please give up attempting two column examples, e.g., on (info "(coreutils) Paired and unpaired lines") Yes, they look great in the standalone Info reader, $ info But in emacs -Q -f info we start to see problems. And then e.g., using https://www.jidanni.org/comp/configuration/.emacs th

bug#70873: join --return-error-if-any-unmatched-lines

2024-05-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
join should have an option to return an error value in the shell's $? if any lines are not matched. Currently the man page doesn't even mention a return value. So it is not set in stone yet. Currently one must save -v output in a file then use test -s do detect if there were any non-matched lines