Re: [PATCH]: ls: add --user-format option for user defined format

2008-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ondřej Vašík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Thanks for doing that. >> However I thought that item had been removed from the TODO: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-02/msg00115.html >> This is a large patch to do essentially what `find -printf` already do

misdirected ubuntu requests (yes this is relevant)

2008-11-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(First, my apologies to Bob Proulx, who apparently (according to Eric anyway) penned the canned reply first, for the misattribution.) After the latest incident of misdirected Ubuntu requests (in French, no less), I decide to file a bug against Ubuntu [1]. Ondřej Vašík wrote: One confusing thi

Re: Problem with ubuntu 8.04

2008-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [please don't top-post, and re-adding the list] According to Oreste Ferrari on 10/17/2008 8:27 PM: > After recent Ubuntu releases there have been several people who have > been asking about Ubuntu questions on this GNU Coreutils mailing >

Why not enhance "sort" to handle floating point numbers?

2008-11-07 Thread Steve Wald
Hi. It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g. -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them. Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation. Steve Wald [EMAIL PR