Our thought about fixing the problem of cp --recursive

2007-12-27 Thread Cai Xianchao
hi, Jim We decide to take your suggestion after researching fts and remove.c. Use fts to perform the source-tree traversal and traverse the destination tree by keeping two file descriptors. Thank you for your suggestion. :-) But we find some problems during our research. There are some coreut

Re: Our thought about fixing the problem of cp --recursive

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Cai Xianchao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, Jim > > We decide to take your suggestion after researching fts and remove.c. > Use fts to perform the source-tree traversal and traverse the destination > tree by keeping two file descriptors. > Thank you for your suggestion. :-) > > But we find some

Re: argve0, psfool

2007-12-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "Daniel C. Bastos" wrote: > >>> I always miss these two programs on every system I meet. argv0 is very > >>> handy when dealing with programs that care

Re: Command line parsing with genparse

2007-12-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
FWIW, GNU tar uses argp for parsing arguments. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

tail -n N

2007-12-27 Thread jidanni
man tail -c, --bytes=N output the last N bytes -n, --lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last 10 say -c N, --bytes=N etc. just like grep(1). P.S., For compatibility `tail' also supports an obsolete usage `tail -COUNT[bcl][f] [FILE