bug#22696: ls output changes considered unacceptable

2016-02-16 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote: > No! IMO Newbies should learn (most painful as possible!) that non-ascii > filenames sucks. :) Maybe ls shouldn't show them at all by default ;) I normally lurk on this list, but this leads me to *vehemently* disagree. This is a top FAQ amon

bug#18681: The Linux cp command has bugs

2014-10-10 Thread Jon Stanley
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Norihiro Tanaka wrote: > If you temporarily want to cancel the the alias, you can define an another > alias as `cpf', and/or can use below instead of `cp' Note that (in bash at least) you can prefix the command with a backslash (\) to override an alias for that in

bug#7739: bug in md5sum ?

2010-12-26 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Arnaud TARDY wrote: > Linux: echo 'somme' | md5sum > result: cc72185f414a55738ee4460aa82802b3 > > windows somme > Result: 3CE6E7F240E6B94C36FD0DDA70C213E9 > > Can you help me? I think that you're seeing the difference in line termination characters in Linux and W

Re: How to only show symbol link with ls?

2010-02-20 Thread Jon Stanley
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Re: rm - bug or user error?

2010-01-26 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Michael Webb wrote: > I'm running /bin/csh.  Don't know how to figure out the coreutil version, > however the rm man-page says 5.2.1. Yeah, like Eric said, I think that this is a csh problem rather than a coreutils problem. I would even think that csh is behaving

Re: rm - bug or user error?

2010-01-26 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Michael Webb wrote: > I suspect the "No match" is coming from the command line parsing and not rm > itself.  However, the message starts with rm. I would suspect you're right - I just tried on my Fedora 12 system (coreuitls 7.6, which is not the current release)

Re: please verify

2009-10-22 Thread Jon Stanley
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Chandan Kumar wrote: > So i am sending my doubts to  , but they are sending > that these are not part of GNU, > Do if i get any doubt , then to which e-mail address i have to send You may want to try a forum specific to whatever distribution you are using. For e

Re: man cp / cp --help: --reply=yes

2009-05-13 Thread Jon Stanley
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > seems to work and, while it is very useful, it isn't in the man page or cp > --help. It is in the info page, and apparently deprecated: `--reply=HOW' *Deprecated: to be removed in 2008.* Using `--reply=yes' makes `cp' act as if `ye

Re: Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Jon Stanley wrote: > Sent from my mobile device Gack, cell phone sending e-mails I didn't intend to. Twenty lashings for me :) ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Stanley
d giga. > > > > ___ > Bug-coreutils mailing list > Bug-coreutils@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils > -- Sent from my mobile device Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler jstan...@fedoraproject.org

Re: what a pitiful explanation for sha1sum

2008-11-26 Thread Jon Stanley
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't 'sha1sum --help' already provide this information? Or the man or info pages? I had to look last night when this came in and I was at a loss to find any poor documentation. __

mkdir -p and -m cannot be used together

2008-10-31 Thread Jon Stanley
OK, I've never really noticed this before, but it just bit me :) Trying to make a directory structure with mode 755, when your umask is for example 0007, doesn't produce the desired results for the parent directories: [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# ./mkdir -m 755 -p /tmp/a/b/c [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# ls