[PATCH] : ls: clarify documentation of exit statuses

Hello, as reported in rh bz#446294 , ls is not very clear with it's exit status documentation. This patch should clarify it a bit. Greetings, Ondřej Vašík From a3ef5a58f396b53287d7870d2cf35198789240cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Va=C5=A1=C3=ADk?= <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: cut -b on huge files

Klein, Roger wrote: > Hi, > > Now I found a hint on the Web > (http://www.programmersheaven.com/mb/linux/187697/245244/re-how-to-chang > e-filesize-in-linux/?S=B2) using `cut` to remove both truncate and "unsparse" files is both inefficient an buggy. From the cut man page: "cut - remove sec

grep: version.c: No such file or directory

make[2]: Entering directory `/cvs/test/coreutils/src' rm -rf progs-readme progs-makefile echo uname chroot nice who users pinky uptime stty df [ chcon chgrp chown chmod cp dd dircolors du ginstall link ln dir vdir ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nohup readlink rm rmdir shred stat sync touch unlin

Re: could not copy fonts from windows folder to Ubuntu font folder

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please keep the list in the loop, and avoid top-posting] According to Amr on 10/8/2008 11:02 PM: > Thanks for your help > I was trying to import some fonts from windows fonts folder to Ubuntu > fonts folder but it did not work yet. > > the following

Re: grep: version.c: No such file or directory

Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tty.c uname.c uname-uname.c unexpand.c uniq.c unlink.c uptime.c users.c ls.c > ls-vdir.c wc.c who.c whoami.c yes.c && exit 1 || : > grep: version.c: No such file or directory > grep: version.h: No such file or directory Is this a quiz? ;-) I deduced th

Re: grep: version.c: No such file or directory

Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, it doesn't affect the exit status of that command, It does. It will always be non-zero, thus useless. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerp

Re: coreutils-7.0 beta test runs

HggdH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have run the tests both as root and as a normal user. I have failures > on both runs. > > I ran the tests as 'make tests', which I *think* was what was required. Thanks for testing. > Do you want the failures? Of course ;-) This is the place. _

coreutils-7.0 beta test runs

I have run the tests both as root and as a normal user. I have failures on both runs. I ran the tests as 'make tests', which I *think* was what was required. Do you want the failures? Linux AMD64 Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) post-beta. Regards, signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

installing

Help, I am unable to install iTunes 8 with Wine. Half way through the setup "*the installer encountered errors before itunes could be configured" *any help?? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: coreutils-7.0 beta test runs

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:37 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > > I have run the tests both as root and as a normal user. I have > failures > > on both runs. > > > > I ran the tests as 'make tests', which I *think* was what was > required. > > Thanks for testing. > > > Do you want the failures? > > O

Re: installing

I am unable to install iTunes 8 with Wine. Half way through the setup "*the installer encountered errors before itunes could be configured" *any help?? Try using amarok or rythmbox. They are much nicer than iTunes, and they are free software! ___

Re: installing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to marcos tavarez on 10/8/2008 10:29 PM: > Help, > >I am unable to install iTunes 8 with Wine. Half way through the setup > "*the installer encountered errors before itunes could be configured" *any > help?? You have reached the GNU

Re: du enhancement request

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:20:09PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Rafal Maszkowski on 10/8/2008 3:16 PM: > > It happens to me that I need to count files in directories. du is a > > command which woud fit best to such task if it had an option "count > > number of files instead of number of

Re: cut -b on huge files

Klein, Roger wrote: > I have problems when too many things get mixed in one mail that's why > please let me sort a little. I see three threads now: > > 1) the problem I had and I was trying to solve: when copying a sparse > file onto Windows the resulting file occypies the full apparent size on >

coreutils.texi node comm/ptx/tsort node ordering

Either the menu or the node ordering should be changed. And the tsort background node should be mentioned, or perhaps made a subsection of tsort invocation. * comm invocation:: Compare two sorted files line by line. * ptx invocation:: Produce a permuted index of file conte

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

Pádraig Brady wrote: > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >> Hello, >> >> what do you think about the following way to remove the sigs_to_ignore >> hack in the timeout.c file? >> It ignores temporarily the signal inside the `send_sig' function instead >> of using the `sigs_to_ignore' array. > > I'll test th