[PATCH] maint: avoid warning in ls.c

2008-10-17 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just pushed this: >From 2ae61facc71b46f3ea970fe497da62ab3b55b878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:04:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint: avoid warning in ls.c * src/ls.c (has_capability) [!HAVE_CAP]: Add unused attribute. --- src/ls.

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

2008-10-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks for writing that up. >> Would you care to ensconce it somewhere more permanent? > > How about the attached? Thanks! However, since your instructions are Fedora 8-specific (and hence guaranteed to be far less useful in a year

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

2008-10-17 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Thanks for writing that up. >>> Would you care to ensconce it somewhere more permanent? >> How about the attached? > > Thanks! > However, since your instructions are Fedora 8-specific (and hence > guaranteed

Re: [coreutils] coreutils-7.0 expr exposes long-standing bug in matlab startup script

2008-10-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I've attached a patch to standardize the format of the > AUTHORS define to that used in other utils with multiple authors. > I've also added you to the list since you basically rewrote > expr with this patch. Good changes. Please push that at your lei

print ID of given group

2008-10-17 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Hello, Consider adding "print ID of given group" utility to coreutils: http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SOURCES/coreutils-getgid.patch?rev=1.11;content-type=text%2Fplain -- Arkadiusz MiśkiewiczPLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.plhttp://ftp.pld-linux.org/ _

join ?

2008-10-17 Thread Maarten . Vanneste
Hello, I have the following question about the join command. I thought join would merge the columns of different files when the same index or value is present in the specified columns. Now I have the impression that it does not work fine when the two data files do not have the same number of v

Re: print ID of given group

2008-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Arkadiusz Miskiewicz on 10/17/2008 1:44 AM: > Hello, > > Consider adding "print ID of given group" utility to coreutils: > > http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SOURCES/coreutils-getgid.patch?rev=1.11;content-type=text

Re: join ?

2008-10-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the following question about the join command. I thought join would > merge the columns of different files when the same index or value is > present in the specified columns. The input must be sorted on the join filed. > For example, I created the following f

Re: join ?

2008-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/17/2008 4:08 AM: > For example, I created the following files: > echo 84 150 | gawk '{for (i=$1;i<=$2;i++) printf "%i %s\n", i,"A"}' > > testA Unrelated to your question (Andreas already answered - your input isn'

Ad: Re: join ?

2008-10-17 Thread Maarten . Vanneste
Hmmm, Thanks for the very quick reply ! Indeed, I manage to get it working with sort (no specifications). I sorted it before as well, to no avail, but then I used sort -n or -g. Have a nice weekend ! Maarten Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17/10/2008 13:13 Til [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc bug-

Re: Problem with ubuntu 8.04

2008-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [There is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] address] According to Oreste on 10/17/2008 2:06 AM: > I am new to Linux. 20 day ago I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and enjoyed it. 3 > days ago I downloaded the recommended updates (120 Mega), after that I > also installed Wine