[ For those reading this via bug-coreutils, the original bug report
is here: http://bugs.debian.org/339136. ]
Thanks for the report.
FYI, this change was mentioned in the NEWS for upstream coreutils-5.3.0,
10 months ago.
With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline termina
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated.
If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format
string.
Hmm. I don't know if I like this change--it really screws with
compata
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated.
>> If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format
>> string.
>
> Hmm. I don't know
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
I do see your point of view, since the `stat' program doesn't feel
very new, now. But back when I made the change, it *was* relatively new.
Not in debian. I'll have to think about whether I want the debian
package to maintain compat
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
Unfortunately, no one reported the problem before this.
Which IMO suggests that nobody cares for the new behavior, whereas we
have a demonstrable dependency on the old behavior. Between debian &
fedora & rhel I'd say that there's a f
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The mv/leak-fd test is broken on cygwin (and possibly Mac, although I
can't test that) due to case-insensitive file systems. Cygwin reports
'mkdir: cannot create directory `A': File exists' when `a' exists with a
different spelling. This test is only
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My main concern here is that there is no way for someone to use
> stat -c "%whatever" file1 file2
> and expect it to work for both syntaxes without reverting to some truely
> hideous sed games or somesuch.
But there *is* a way. It's just that the por
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:14:27PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
But there *is* a way. It's just that the portable solution
doesn't fit on one line:
That falls into the "truely hideous" category, imo. :)
Mike Stone
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When I run head, windows 2003 server standard edition, in the command
box I see text on the screen.
When I use: "head a.txt |more" I get mostly ? with one recognizable
character here and there.
The same when I do: "head a.txt > b.txt" and then I do: "type b.txt" I
see mostly ?
I p
To begin with, the fact that you emailed bug-textutils
instead of bug-coreutils makes me suspect that your
version of the tools are rather outdated, and you may
be benefitted by upgrading to a newer version (the
current version is 5.93).
> When I run head, windows 2003 server standard edition, in
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