Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM: > |It looks like the system snprintf is buggy. I suspect the '-' > ... > And that violates C99/POSIX. Duplication of the `-' flag should not > disable it. In some defense of HP-UX 10.20 it was released IIRC in 1996 which was

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM: >> |It looks like the system snprintf is buggy. I suspect the '-' >> ... >> And that violates C99/POSIX. Duplication of the `-' flag should not >> disable it. > > In some defense of H

Feature requestion: rm option that supports trash

2008-02-05 Thread Wilfred
It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a 'safer' option for newbies. Thanks ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

Feature request: rm option that supports trash (plain text)

2008-02-05 Thread Wilfred
(apologies for previous html email) It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a 'safer' option for newbies. Thanks ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@g

Re: Feature request: rm option that supports trash (plain text)

2008-02-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Wilfred wrote: > It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org > compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a > 'safer' option for newbies. This is easily done. Simply create an alias that moves the file instead of removing it. alias rm="mv --target-

Re: sort --compare-version

2008-02-05 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 5, 2008 1:09 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would mean to me that version comparison would need to be of the > form ---sort and would need to be in the "Ordering > options:" section and not the "Other options:" section. I suppose > that this option should be called --versi

Re: Feature requestion: rm option that supports trash

2008-02-05 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 5, 2008 4:29 PM, Wilfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if rm supported moving a file to a freedesktop.org > compliant trash folder. This woud save much heartache by giving a > 'safer' option for newbies. It's not safer for them when they find themselves using some system wh

Re: [PATCH] Add svg to the dircolors list

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin ... >> +.svg 01;35 > > How about .svgz? It's already there. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.o