-> findutils bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?51926
2011/7/19 Pádraig Brady :
> On 19/07/11 23:00, James Youngman wrote:
>> 2011/7/17 Paul Eggert :
>>> On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout,
>>>> was to have an easy way in scripts
2011/7/17 Paul Eggert :
> On 07/17/11 05:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Well my reasoning for having "0" mean don't timeout,
>> was to have an easy way in scripts to specify no timeout
>
> That's a good thing to have, but it could be specified in
> a different way. One possibility is the '1' (digit 1
2011/6/24 Dimitri Tassiaux :
> *Century error !*
This isn't a very intelligible bug report. When reporting a bug in
software please state as precisely as possible:
1. What you did.
2. What you expected to happen.
3. What actually did happen.
In this case I assume you think that %C prints the ce
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> OK how about I put the last 3 or 4 examples from
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#dates
>> in an EXAMPLE section in the man page.
>
> Good examples.
> I like the idea.
One tweak: use date -d "12:00 +1 day" inst
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, IgnorantGuru
wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation - I definitely think maintaining backward
> compatibility is a better approach. There is far too much breakage of
> software in linux as it is.
FWIW, GNU findutils does the same thing. I don't think anybody
com
Does the same thing happen with "id -G"?
---
src/wc.c |3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c
index 0698ae1..6df7fed 100644
--- a/src/wc.c
+++ b/src/wc.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
fputs (_("\
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here's an interesting patch.
[...]
> It'd be great if another pair of eyes could glance through
> these changes (diffs look "big", but most hunks are simply removals).
I read the patch, but don't have any comments. Partly this is because
it i
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> The name proposed in this mail is O_NOSTD (implying that a successful
> result will not be any of the standard file descriptors); other ideas
> mentioned on the bug-gnulib list were O_SAFER, O_NONSTD, O_NOSTDFD.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/htm
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:16 PM, bornlibra23 wrote:
>
> Hello People
> I am trying to port various GNU products to Stratus OpenVOS platform
> including the GCC compiler collection. However I am stuck currently for the
> lack of wide & multibyte character support. Can somebody guide me to an
> imple
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 7.4-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> [Debian Bug / wishlist]
>
> $ df -hl | grep usb
>
> /dev/sdb1 3,9G 3,9G 96K 100% /media/usb0
> /dev/sdc1 3,8G 4,0K 3,8G 1% /media/usb1
>
> SUGGESTION
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> 2. Negative path to eliminate the part of the path.
>>
>> -
>>
>> This removes the from the end of .
>>
>> - +
>>
>> This removes the from the beginning of
>
> The algebra seems really strange to me. Has the '-' operator usual sem
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Bernhard Herko wrote:
>> Mayby there is someone who can help me.
Maybe, could you let us know how you came to send email to the
bug-coreutils mailing list? Maybe there is some documentation
pointing to it that needs to be updated so that it is
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Daygan Sobotka wrote:
> When attempting to install gnome-do plugins on my 64-bit Ubuntu O.S. I run
> into this problem
First, thank you for including both the background information and the
precise output you saw. This is very helpful.
> at the "sudo make instal
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, James Youngman wrote:
> [+bug-findutils]
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, PG wrote:
>> ah, great!
>>
>> thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find
>> fails. And perhaps it's not worth
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Daniel Kersten wrote:
> $ ps --inverse
> -- ERROR: Unknown gnu long option.
[...]
> I would expect to receive a list of all processes currently not
> running
I have implemented such an option, but I have not yet finished testing
it. As soon as I have verified the
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>
> The ls(1) manpage is incomplete. Why?
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to Richard Guy Briggs on 7/9/2009 2:57 PM:
>> > The ls(1) manp
[+bug-findutils]
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, PG wrote:
> ah, great!
>
> thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find
> fails. And perhaps it's not worth the extra computation time required to,
> upon failure of cd'ing into the directory, trying to list it.
It pro
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:13:15AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
>> The essential point though has already been made by Bob and Andreas;
>> this causes failures for filenames which themselves contain newlines
>> (all Unix-
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, VIKAS wrote:
>
>> Myself Vikas from India, i'm working as SQA in one of the big brand
>> company.
>> I want to contribute to open source by doing some work for GNU.
>> Could you please guide me how can i contribute to GN
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> please add a -0 option to tr, which is equivalent to
> running:
>
> tr '\n' '\000'
>
> this is a useful command for converting \n-terminated input lines to
> null-terminated strings suitable for feeding into 'xargs -0' as many
> programs ca
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I find it quite difficult to determine correct key positions to use,
>> especially given the complicated rules for (global) -b options etc.
>>
>> I wonder would it be useful to add a --key-debug option,
>> which would ma
Sounds like a great idea to me.
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Blake writes:
>
>> Would it be worth starting to patch the testsuite to replace 'setuidgid -g
>> list usr cmd arg' with 'chroot --user usr --groups=list / cmd arg' in
>>
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Matthew Woehlke
wrote:
> Chris Weston wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying debug an issue with my one of my disks in my system. I
>> have an ext3 file system mounted and ls -l is reporting an impossible
>> size for two of the files: log_1848_1239927341.core and
>> log_1848_1239
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Stefan Behte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> and thanks for he fast reply. Surely it's possible that way, but that's two
> commands instead of just one. ;)
Yes, combining tools with complementary features is the Unix way of
doing things.
James.
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Rui Mauro Oliveira
wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> Can i get help with this error o gives me in PC Magalhes whit Caixa Magica
> please:
>
> /dev/hda7: Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 684772: 188998 188998
> /dev/hda7: Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 684811: 1971
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Bartley
wrote:
> I considered this. There are at least 3 different variants of ACL's
> (POSIX, NFSv4 and MacOS X) and they are generally incompatible. UMich
> created patches to acl/libacl so that you could set NFS4 acl's via
> getfacl/setfacl using POSIX AC
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> They are free to access the object in any random order they like.
>
> The question is: How many bytes are the mem* functions free to access?
>
> How many bytes is "the object" large?
If s is NULL, there _is_ no object
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Brian McQueen wrote:
> The new feature is demonstrated by a wrapper script around tail which
> gives me the ability to use tail to drive arbitrary alerts like this
> (only the core concept lines are shown):
>
>
>
> # put it into the background
>
> tail -n 0 -f erro
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> -r, --real
> print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG
It's an abbreviated - perhaps too abbreviated form - of "-u or -g or -G".
James.
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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #10384 (project coreutils):
That's an option, certainly, and if the default is to remove supplementary
groups, it's pretty safe.
Another option is to call getgroups(), but then you need to decide whether to
call it before chroot (when things like any necessary LDAP co
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #10384 (project coreutils):
What about supplementary group IDs? In the general case the caller will be
privileged and want to drop those privileges. Some of the supplementary
groups will be privileged.
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> "make check" fails in "doc" on a vanilla NetBSD5.0 system (released
>> yesterday) because no version of Perl is installed by default. In
>> fact make fails without explanati
"make check" fails in "doc" on a vanilla NetBSD5.0 system (released
yesterday) because no version of Perl is installed by default. In
fact make fails without explanation:
$ make check
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /home/james/tmp/cu/coreutils-7.2.66-428db1/doc
I guess this is becaus
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Christian Hudon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a small feature request. It'd be nice to have a --no-header option to
> df that skips printing the header line.
The feature is already implemented in sed:-
$ df -P | sed -e 1d|head -3
/dev/mapper/mirror_a-root_fs 51605
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Automake has made it so a package maintainer has to
> go a little out of the way to make --enable-silent-rules the default.
> So I'm doing this:
>
> From 52c4018a9c1020c2250b4250dfdda1dfc1873284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering
>
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, George Marselis wrote:
> Hey guys, thanks for all the hard work. I'm working as a sysadmin for a shop
> that specializes in Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> i got a directory with a couple of tens of milions of files.
It's not such a great idea to do that. Far better to ch
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Stefano Carucci wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> Can anyone suggest to me a detailed guide about the chroot implementation ?
The implementation in coreutils or the one in your kernel?The
implementation of chroot(1) in coreurils looks pretty much like this:
chroot("t
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Jim Meyering writes:
>>
>>> Sure, but that's not the question.
>>> The question is whether we can assume short-read-on-regular-file
>>> implies EOF.
>>
>> I think you can look at it as if you are reading a growing fil
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
> index 9b0e139..3cbeba4 100644
> --- a/src/copy.c
> +++ b/src/copy.c
> @@ -699,10 +699,6 @@ copy_reg (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
> goto close_src_and_dst_desc;
>
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
> Hello. I am writing partial fnmatch to speed up locate et al.
Please note that locate is part of GNU findutils, not GNU coreutils.
I have CC'ed this email to the correct list.
After recent Ubuntu releases there have been several people who have
been asking about Ubuntu questions on this GNU Coreutils mailing
list. If you would be so kind could you tell us what has directed you
to ask your question on this mailing list? We fear that there may be
incorrect documentation
2009/4/16 :
>
> Sur les serveurs Linux RedHat enterprise version 5 l'option +n ne
> fonctionne plus , il faut utiliser l'option -n +n a la place .
> Un positionnement de variable _POSIX2_VERSION a la valeur 199209 contourne
> ce probleme .
> Exemple de package :
> coreutils-5.97-19.el5
Please for
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thank you for the bug report.
> The relevant code from coreutils/src/copy.c is here:
>
> /* A short read on a regular file means EOF. */
> if (n_read != buf_size && S_ISREG (src_open_sb.st_mode))
> break;
>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> According to Ar3s on 4/15/2009 5:25 PM:
>>
>> echo "a"|cut --delimiter=" " --fields=2-
>> I have assumed that it would return an empty string
>> but it returns a
>>
>> Is it normal or is it a b
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> More important, it's not clear to me what the role of the test suite
> ought to be. Should the test really fail if it doesn't get enough
> performance improvement with 2 threads? How do we decide what's
> "enough"? None of our other tests ar
Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils):
IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for
seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly.
My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of
data will
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Henry Purvis wrote:
>
> Hi, um.my name is henry and there is a bug on an application I have (from
> cydia) and I typed in on 'terminal' and it said to contact you
> guys to say that there was a bug.so could you please get it fixed? PLEASE!
Could you let
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: James Youngman
>> ---
>> README-prereq | 3 +++
>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
&g
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> OK, I'll work on the creation of a GNU project called 'libunistring', that
> will export the functions from gnulib as a shared library.
My first reaction was, why isn't libunistring===glibc, but then we'd
end up in a situation where gnulib w
Signed-off-by: James Youngman
---
README-prereq |3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index 91676f4..d7c9c36 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -27,5 +27,8 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Major Péter wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to list some folders with they block-sizes, but only specific
> folders am I interested.
> So I would like to use find to list the correct folders for me:
> ls `find . -type d -user foo -name "*"`
-name "*" is redundant I t
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> When using git-bisect to see exactly when pr -oN broke,
> I was dismayed to see that I couldn't easily build some older
> versions from git due to their dependency on older versions
> of gnulib. Of course, this isn't at all surprising, once yo
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Charles Jie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Situation:
>
> I often need to pull lots of files from Windows boxes or from SD
> cards in FAT filesystem filled with photos from digital camera.
>
> The copied files usually have the x-bit enabled, which I hate very
> much i
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM, vimal raj wrote:
> Sir,
> I cant able to run the following Shell program in the UBUNTU 7.10 version.
I'm happy to help you but it is better to do that off this mailing
list, since this mailing list doesn't have anything to do with shell
programming on Ubuntu.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Laurent Manchon
wrote:
> -- Hi,
>
> i have used a join command as: "join -1 1 -2 1 -o
> 2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4,2.5,2.6,2.7,2.8,2.9 file.test V.test"
> with the files i send you in attachment(files.zip).
> This command returns only 55 lines.
> The real number in the output
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM, James Youngman wrote:
> * THANKS: Update James Youngman's email address
> -James Youngman james+use...@free-lunch.demon.co.uk
> +James Youngman j...@gnu.org
I haven't used that email address at all si
* THANKS: Update James Youngman's email address
Signed-off-by: James Youngman
---
THANKS |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index ebb8c4d..c78e85d 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ James
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Poor Yorick
wrote:
> Couldn't check out coreutils at work because corporate firewall blocked
> everything but http access, which always hung during git-clone.
Perhaps if you try a shallow clone by using "git clone --depth 2" or
similar, this may work around the
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Burba, Viktor
wrote:
> Dear guys,
>
> I have expierenced the following unexpeted behaviour by using the "date"
> command on SuSE SLES10(x86_64):
>
> I have timezone setup to Asia/Dubai (GMT+4), which has short name GST
> (Gulf Standart time)
>
> #date
> Thu Feb 20
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM, mz h wrote:
>
> Hello! I need help because my Linux system!
> My system is :
> Linux TCJ 2.6.18-92.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:31:30 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> A user of this system is [dmuser].
> Its profile is .bash_profile.
> I can'
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, David M. Dowdle
wrote:
>
> I'd rank this as low priority, but people doing things like 30 year mortages
> will be hitting this already.
>
Mortgage calculations probably shouldn't be using time_t anyway; use
of time_t for future calculations assumes that we already
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Looks like your info system is misconfigured. The coreutils info file
> has a direntry section that lists all invdividual utilities as menu
> entries that redirect to the respective invocation nodes in the
>
Having inhabited a number of GNU mailing lists for few years now, I
see that people occasionally email them with wholly unrelated
problems. My current guess is that this happens because they happen
to see --help output from a GNU program or see the BUGS section of
some GNU manpage, and decide to
I note that (for example) the commands "info paste" and "info
coreutils paste" produce quite different results.The former brings
up a manpage on my system and the latter brings up the Info
documentation for the coreutils program "paste". The latter is more
useful.
The fact that info falls bac
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:22 AM, wrote:
>> "EB" == Eric Blake writes:
>
> EB> According to jida...@jidanni.org on 12/18/2008 9:55 PM:
>>> Wait a second, when making a Wikipedia editing contribution we just
>>> click on
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM, wrote:
> In HACKING
Thanks for the suggestions.
> If you have made *no* changes:
> git pull
>
> If you *have* made changes and committed them to "master", do this:
> git fetch
> git rebase origin
>
> OK, but add
>
> If you *have* made cha
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> +2008-12-14 James Youngman
>> +
>> + getopt: Indicate the problem with ambiguous options clearly.
>> + * lib/getopt.c (_getopt_internal_r): Print the first and second
>> +
---
ChangeLog|6 ++
lib/getopt.c | 25 +
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7faac2b..b593588 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-12-14 James Youngman
+
+ getopt
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Jan Minář <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/12/10 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> $ date -d "next `LC_ALL=C date +%A`"
>> mercredi 10 décembre 2008, 00:00:00 (UTC+)
> ^^^
>
> You'
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Jan Minář <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> date(1) command parses "next $day_of_week_today" (where
> $day_of_week_today is today's day name) incorrectly:
>
> $ date
> Tue Dec 9 17:16:50 GMT 2008
> $ date -d "next `date +%A`"
> Tue Dec 9 00:00:00 GMT 2008
>
> It
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #24949 (project coreutils):
>
> The problem is that without -P I can't invoke pwd from things like Perl
> portably. If I use "my $pwd = `pwd`;" and it runs a shell and uses the shell
> builtin ve
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:51 PM, ebloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> cp command option :
>
> -x, --one-file-system
> stay on this file system
>
> sometimes does not stay on the same filesystem.
>
> using cmd line :
> cp -r -u -p -x -f -v --target-directory='/abc/def/123/456/xx" /home
> or
>
* TODO: Add to-do entry for -P and -L options of pwd.
---
TODO |5 +
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f38c0b6..0dbb85f 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ printf:
platforms where the native *printf(3) is deficient.
Suggestio
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Andrew McGill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the risk of drifting off topic - is there ever a benefit in the shell
> implementing a ">"-redirection with just O_TRUNC , rather than O_TRUNC |
> O_APPEND ?
That is already the existing behaviour.
The >> redirection o
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> This version should be race-free:
>>
>> find -type f -print0 |
>> xargs -0 -n 8 --max-procs=16 md5sum >> ~/md5sums 2>&1
>>
>>
[ CC ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Andrew McGill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would you expect this to do --:
>
> find -type f -print0 |
> xargs -0 -n 8 --max-procs=16 md5sum >& ~/md5sums
Produce a race condition :)It generates 16 parallel processes
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep wondering if the OS level needs a better interface; an 'openv' or
> 'statv'
> or I'm currently wondering if a combined call would work - something which
> would stat a path, if it's a normal file, open it,
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Perhaps something like the attached patch to the usage message might
>> be worthwhile (though I think it is probably too wordy).
>
>
Perhaps something like the attached patch to the usage message might
be worthwhile (though I think it is probably too wordy).
James.
From 54614d88bc91d0c188108b467fb518c7d3de7c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:55:50 +
Subject:
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about parallelizing it via xargs, e.g.,
>
>$ echo a b c d e f g h | xargs -t -n4 --no-run-if-empty \
> --max-procs=2 -- cp --target-directory=dest
>cp --target-directory=dest a b c d
>cp --target-director
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you considered adding SELinux-related format directives to GNU find?
I would likely accept such patches into find, subject to a GNU
copyright assignment of course.
More generally, a more flexible syntax for find's -pri
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The attached tests pass with both your and Paul's patches.
Thanks everybody for doing that.
James.
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Softeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello from Paris,
>
> Since I downloaded and watched the "Revolution OS" documentary yesterday I
> have decided to install win-bash on my computer.
>
> I noticed that win-bash doesn't read .bash_profile, .profile, etc.
> custo
Interesting points, thanks!
Since shred cannot do anything useful with a symbolic link there are
only two (no, three) possible courses of action:
1. Dereference the link; shred the thing it points to.
2. Unlink the symbolic link
3. Refuse to do anything
At the moment then, shred does (1). shr
It looks to me like you probably just have locate settings that you don't like:-
~$ sort -t "" -k 1 < Desktop/T
20th Century Fox Animation /guid/9202a8c04000641f80923a5a
20th Century Fox/guid/9202a8c04000641f80136722
20th Century Fox Television /guid/9202a8c0
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Same error happens on fedora.
>
> So it's probably related to that horrible i18n patch applied
> by distros [...]
Could be. Debian Lenny is unaffected.
$ sort test test | uniq -u | wc -l ; wc -l test
0
45 test
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Enrique Arizón Benito
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upps, I forgot it.
>
> #date -s "1970-01-01 00:00:01"
> date: cannot set date: Invalid argument
It looks like date is simply reporting an error that it received from
the operating system. The strace utility (or
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 5:46 PM, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Mart, let me know if you can assign copyright to the FSF,
>> and I'll send you the paperwork.
>>
>> Paul?
>
> Thanks, Mart. Nobody has come up with a better solution, so let's go
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Kamil Dudka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+#define LOG_EQ(a,b) (((a)&&(b))||(!(a)&&!(b)))
>>>
>>> This can be written more simply as
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Jan Skowron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> coreutils program "cut" could use a "merge delimiters" option.
>
> Common use case: ls -l | cut ...
> One needs to print 7-th column of ls -l to see all times of
> modifications. But there is no constant number of delimiters
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Dr. Aprahamian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am having difficulty with file names that have French accents.
> For example the file.-
> AfficheJourn\351e\311tudeP\350reaveclogos-1.pdf
> exists but because it has the French e accent in its title the progra
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problem 1: Here we see fold -s busy busting apart UTF-8 characters
> again still.
Unless somebody beats me to it, I will try to look at this problem
(though I'm not familiar with how fold is implemented).
> Every third chop falls on
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM, jrl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> can't log in as root
> am using directions from forums FAQ
> bash: su-: command not foundis the error msg.
There should be a space before the dash, if you use it at all. For
more information see either
man su
or
info core
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Dave Turner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tape drives and their media are large and expensive so I use writeable
> DVDs for my backups instead. GNU tar can write an archive across
> multiple tapes, using up any remaining space on one tape before moving
> to t
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to ask again (you liked the idea but I'm not seeing it implemented)
> that on the utilities head ad tail that the -c option be not only in bytes
> but also in k,m,g as in 10k 200m 2g
Already done! You should
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Guillaume Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear GNU,
>
>
> I have two files exactly identical composed of:
>
> 6 Fields, tab separated, with a /n
That would be \n - I assume you mean ASCII LF.
> at the end of the line, sorted
> numerically on the key identifier
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:44 PM, ROBERT DVORACEK
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Robert Dvoracek wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello. Do you take feature requests here?
>>
>> Sure.
>
>Great. I sent one a while back but I'm not sure if anyone got it.
> It was a request for a sort o
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