bug#33125: /bin/del

2018-10-27 Thread francky . leyn
Hello, in this message a do a plea to introduce a /bin/del command into the coreutils. Deleting is something totally different than removing. It is a mv action and there must be a restore action. With the coreutils, removing is the default. This is not wrong, but it can be very anyoing, as

bug#33125: the destrustive and non predent behavior of ALL UNIX commands

2018-10-24 Thread francky . leyn
- Op 24 okt 2018 om 8:18 schreef Francky Leyn : On 10/23/18 11:46 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > Hello, > > I just destroyed 3 days of scaninng work. This was the command: > > ls p.*.png | sort -t. -k2 -n | gawk '{ printf("mv '\''

bug#33125: the destrustive and non predent behavior of ALL UNIX commands

2018-10-23 Thread francky . leyn
On 10/23/18 11:46 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > Hello, > > I just destroyed 3 days of scaninng work. This was the command: > > ls p.*.png | sort -t. -k2 -n | gawk '{ printf("mv '\''%s'\'' '\''p. > %d.png'\''\n", $0, NR+6) }' | bash [ mailto:bug-coreutils@gnu.org ] > > The problem was

bug#33125: the destrustive and non predent behavior of ALL UNIX commands

2018-10-23 Thread francky . leyn
Hello, I just destroyed 3 days of scaninng work. This was the command: ls p.*.png | sort -t. -k2 -n | gawk '{ printf("mv '\''%s'\'' '\''p. %d.png'\''\n", $0, NR+6) }' | bash [ mailto:bug-coreutils@gnu.org ] The problem was that the sequence of mv command resulted in one .png file: mv 'p. 1

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-02-18 Thread francky . leyn
Hello, I hear nothing from you guys. Let me hear something, Best regards, Francky - Oorspronkelijk e-mail - > > > - Oorspronkelijk e-mail - > > On 02/12/2012 06:49 PM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a PC wich runs under Windows 7. > > >

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-02-13 Thread francky . leyn
- Oorspronkelijk e-mail - > On 02/12/2012 06:49 PM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a PC wich runs under Windows 7. > > On top of that I have a Virtual Box which runs Windows Xp > > and Ubuntu 11.04. > > > > Under Ubuntu I have a problem with the mv command

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-02-12 Thread francky . leyn
ative, I use a cp and a rm. Why is this? Best regards, Francky Leyn www.Leyn.eu

bug#10735: chmod +x

2012-02-10 Thread francky . leyn
- Oorspronkelijk e-mail - > On 02/07/2012 02:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 02/07/2012 07:59 AM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote: > >> I was wondering wether I couldn't write something like > >> > >> if [not on NTFS filesystem] then > >> chmod +x > > > > No doubt you can write somethin

bug#9823: request for more correct error reporting of mv

2011-10-21 Thread francky . leyn
Hello, if one uses mv to move a directory, and the target dir already exists, mv reports "Directory not empty". I find this misleading. The message should also contain the message "target dir already exists" or something similar. Best regards, Francky

bug#8736: chmod -p --parents

2011-05-27 Thread francky . leyn
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.ext It should be more refined however: the dirs should be rx, but the file only r. Please let me hear something. Best regards, Francky Leyn, www.Leyn.eu

reversing the order in which lines appear

2008-01-25 Thread Francky Leyn
Hello, I'm seeking for some way to revert the order of lines. The first line read thus must get out last and the last read must be output first. Although it's easy to write a program for it, I'm wondering if this is not possible with the UNIX toolbox. Any ideas? I first tought of something like

Re: aux.* as filename

2007-06-24 Thread Francky Leyn
John Cowan wrote: James Youngman scripsit: True. Its exit status always seems to be 0 and it emits its messages to stdout, too. I'm preparing a patch, but who's the GNU maintainer? I have the name of the Debian maintainer (Ben Pfaff), and several email addresses, of which hopefully

Re: aux.* as filename

2007-06-24 Thread Francky Leyn
John Cowan wrote: Francky Leyn scripsit: I have DVD with a file system on. At some place the files aux.c, aux.h and aux.pg are present. If you try to cp, find, tar or whatever, the command "hangs". I thought: well perhaps those files are corrupt on the DVD. I will try a testcase

aux.* as filename

2007-06-24 Thread Francky Leyn
e on the C:\. What do I get? touch: closing `aux.c': Bad file descriptor. Can someone explain me what I encounter here? Regards, Francky Leyn ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

case sensitivity of mv

2007-06-24 Thread Francky Leyn
Dear, when I execute "mv webboy WebBoy", mv says that the source directory is equal to the destination directory, and refuses to execute the command. webboy and WebBoy are not the same. Why is mv then refusing to execute? Best regards, Fr

exclude option for cp

2007-06-24 Thread Francky Leyn
x27;*~' -e .scratch What about the idea? Is someone willing to implement this? Best regards, Francky Leyn ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

kilo is k and not K

2007-05-19 Thread Francky Leyn
"K" in the displayed -h output represents a kibi-, symbol Ki (see lib/human.c). The conclusion then was that we needed a new ls option "--iec" like "--si" The --iec would write out "ib" prefixes as defined by the IEC standard: Eg: 4,1Ki, 34Mi, ... Would someon

kilo is k and not K

2007-02-26 Thread Francky Leyn
n.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI . Standards have to be respected regardless of personal preferences. I don't know if this error also occurs for other coreutils. Best regards, Francky Leyn http://users.telenet.be/leyn _ All things tre

Re: banner

2005-07-27 Thread Francky . Leyn
>I am not familiar with the Cygwin banner program. Is it like one of >the two BSD or SysV banner programs in behavior? yes >Could you say a few words about why this program benefit from being >included in coreutils? On our system the core utils are installed for all platforms. Because banner is

banner

2005-07-27 Thread Francky . Leyn
Dear, it would be very practical if the coreutils would include the banner program of cygwin. It is practical for debugging scripts. Best regards, Let me hear something, Francky Leyn ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http