Re: date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago"

2009-01-29 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Eric Blake wrote: > Bauke Jan Douma xs4all.nl> writes: > > > > ~ $ date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago" > > > Wed Jan 28 06:52:08 CST 2009 > I've verified that the parse is unchanged between 6.10 and now (7.0+). > It's got to be one of these gnulib patches: > git log 30ffdfc..81e61

misc maint.mk improvements

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just pushed these: >From 60ca9e1599ed5c9a1a06130d915438cbb32ab391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:44:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] maint: factor syntax-check rules * maint.mk (_ignore_case): New macro. (_prohibit_regexp): Use it. Factor many existi

Re: [PATCH] cp/mv: xattr support

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Kamil Dudka wrote: >> New version of patch is attached. ... > copy.c:153: error: unused parameter 'str' > make[3]: *** [copy.o] Error 1 > > I'll fold the following into your patch and test > a little more tomorrow. > > Also ran "make distcheck" and fixed the two failures

Re: Question on sort

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Glen Lenker wrote: > I noticed that 'avoid_trashing_input' only avoids trashing the first > input file that matchs the output file. Should sort only protect the > people who shoot themselves in the foot once, but not twice or more? Hi Glen, It seems to be testing each input file. If you have fou

[PATCH, resend] document sort --ignore-case --unique interaction

2009-01-29 Thread jidanni
Signed-off-by: jidanni --- No reply last time so resending. doc/coreutils.texi |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index d8df107..06b259c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3742,6 +3742,10 @

[PATCH,resend] date doc: warn at -d about LC_TIME

2009-01-29 Thread jidanni
We also warn here about LC_TIME, so the user will know even if he doesn't look in the @xref{Date input formats}. Signed-off-by: jidanni --- Also no reply last time. Resending. doc/coreutils.texi |5 + 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc

Feature request: gzip/bzip support for split

2009-01-29 Thread Chandrakumar Muthaiah
I would like to propose a feature that allows to gzip/bzip on its way out during the split and I am also including the patch for the same. I believe this is going to be really useful when we are dealing with very large of files. I hope that it will be useful for people out there. Below is the pa