fix a minor bug in sort: bogus --batch-size diagnostic

2008-08-10 Thread Jim Meyering
I noticed that ./sort -m --batch-size=18446744073709551617 was printing garbage as part of its diagnostic. Here's the fix, along with a couple other improvements. >From cd1f4bc1ecde1e7b313c1d0d587a07965d00d8b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 1

rm && opensolaris && ntfs-3g problem

2008-08-10 Thread Andras Barna
on opensolaris (update 94) can't remove recursively directories. @osol /ntfs: /usr/gnu/bin/mkdir -p t/t/t/t/t/t/t/t/t/t//t/t///t//t/t/t/ @osol /ntfs: /usr/gnu/bin/rm --version|head -1 rm (GNU coreutils) 6.7 @osol /ntfs: rm -rf t rm: cannot remove directory `t': Directory not empty @osol /ntfs: rm

Re: ls -s but sorted

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
JY> What are you suggesting should be changed? There is no way to get any order into these rectangles I cropped from your reply: ~/tm tota 104K 12K 32K ~/tm tota 12 104 32 One must resort to an external program to get them in order. You only offer -S sorting, but we people trying to weed out

some more tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, Attached the promised batch of other string fixes. The sixth patch removes brackets around the MMDD... part on the second synopsis line of 'date'. They are unneeded, because the first synopsis line already desscribes the possibility of having zero arguments or only an option argument. R

Re: whoami problem when two or more users have the same uid

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Proulx
First, thank you for making this suggestion. However I do not believe this to be a deficiency of the whoami command. This is expected behavior in the GNU and Unix systems. flaviano petrocchi wrote: > I use an alternate root user with login capabilities, created with > "useradd -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0