bug#15633: dd and host protected area

2013-10-16 Thread Peter D.
Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie and Stuart Kemp. psd@psd-System-Product-Name:~$ Thank you. -- Peter D. Sig goes here...

feature request; df error message

2009-01-02 Thread Peter D.
uld convey more information. Currently, I'm using core-utils 6.12. Thank you. -- sig goes here... Peter D. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity

2007-03-12 Thread Peter D.
On Monday 12 March 2007 14:42, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > The alias can also be avoided by: > > unalias cp > command cp > \cp > 'cp' > "cp" > env cp > > All of those also avoid the alias. I've learnt a couple of new trick

Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity

2007-03-11 Thread Peter D.
of interactivity cannot do so [snip] They can do so, by using the full path name of the command. On my system, /bin/cp fileA fileB does what you want. -- sig goes here... Peter D. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-03-01 Thread Peter D.
On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:33, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I also would prefer avoiding a diagnostic if possible. > > > > Not even for an intermediate version that says, "That used to > > work. It doesn&#

Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-02-28 Thread Peter D.
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:50, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When an inconsistent set of environment variables and command > > line options is given then sending a polite informative version > > of "programming er

Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-02-26 Thread Peter D.
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:24, Jim Meyering wrote: > Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am sufficiently ignorant of POSIX that df could be in completely > >> compliant and I would not

Re: feature request: make df as pretty as ls -l

2007-02-26 Thread Peter D.
On Monday 26 February 2007 21:12, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Peter D. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a feature request. Can the output from "df" be columnated, like > > the output from "ls -l"? > > > > Having thousands separators is great. I

Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-02-26 Thread Peter D.
On Monday 26 February 2007 19:13, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am sufficiently ignorant of POSIX that df could be in completely > > compliant and I would not know. > > It does conform, since you're in an en_US.UTF-8 lo

Re: Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-02-25 Thread Peter D.
On Monday 26 February 2007 15:11, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have an environment variable set that triggers thousands separators. > > It can be overridden with an extra command line option, but I suspect > > that a &

Re: feature request: make df as pretty as ls -l

2007-02-25 Thread Peter D.
On Monday 26 February 2007 15:12, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Peter D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a feature request. Can the output from "df" be columnated, like > > the output from "ls -l"? > > That's on our wish-li

Should "df --portability" allow thousands separators?

2007-02-24 Thread Peter D.
they are a recent innovation that post dates POSIX. I have an environment variable set that triggers thousands separators. It can be overridden with an extra command line option, but I suspect that a "-P" should be sufficient. If this isn't really a

feature request: make df as pretty as ls -l

2007-02-24 Thread Peter D.
/mnt/mandriva-free-2007-CD1.i586 /dev/hdc5 4,654,137,344 1,771,907,072 2,645,756,928 41% /mnt/test Set your mail reader to a fixed width font. Some of the entries are insanely long, but it looks better to me. ;-) -- sig goes here... Peter D. ___