Re: bug of shred

2009-02-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
hanmzh wrote: > Thanks for replying my mail. > The meaning of sour-files is source files. ^_^ > > The end of help message of shred. I saw some sentence like this, > "the backup of file system maybe have all copies of this file, the copies > can't be delete, and would resume the files which had

Re: a fix for color ls with wrapped lines.

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: ... > Here's an alternate patch that seems to do the job. > But it may have bugs, because I did it far too quickly > and haven't reviewed it at all. > > This will need at least tests corresponding to -1, > -l (two: the name itself spans, or the -> link_name crosses > the line_l

Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Nick Demou wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Nick Demou on 2/5/2009 4:20 AM: >>> And now about the bug report. It's about "tr". I realized that tr was >>> mostly failing when working on utf-8 input. >> >> Thanks for the report. It is a known problem that

[PATCH] tests: Avoid skipping stty-* tests.

2009-02-10 Thread Nix
tests/test-lib.sh (require_controlling_input_terminal_): Check stdout, not stdin. --- This testsuite bug causes the stty tests to be skipped, always, because it's testing stdout, not stdin, and the testsuite engine redirects stdout to a logfile. They still pass, despite not being run for lo these m

wish of adding

2009-02-10 Thread olivers
Hi there, I know it's not the correct adress to send any request but the man ls don't give any other one. I use linux for 2 years aready, one under debian (debian-eeepc lenny 2.6.26 Gnome/Xfce) By using ls command, i found this option : ls --group-directories-first this one is very usefull for m

Re: wish of adding

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to oliv...@no-log.org on 2/9/2009 10:51 PM: Hello Oliver, > I know it's not the correct adress to send any request but the man ls > don't give any other one. This is the correct place. > By using ls command, i found this option : ls --gro

Re: [PATCH] tests: Avoid skipping stty-* tests.

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Nix wrote: > tests/test-lib.sh (require_controlling_input_terminal_): Check stdout, > not stdin. > --- > This testsuite bug causes the stty tests to be skipped, always, because > it's testing stdout, not stdin, and the testsuite engine redirects stdout > to a logfile. They still pass, despite not

Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Demou
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Nick Demou wrote: >> [...] >> Thanks for the info Eric. I was almost sure this would be the case. In >> fact I don't consider this as the main topic of my bug report. The >> main topic for me is the documentation. The man and info page don't

Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2009 01:13:13 Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >> > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 03:28:58 Jim Meyering wrote: >> >>> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Friday 23 January 2009 09:35:54 Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >

Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

2009-02-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:10:59 Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 06 February 2009 01:13:13 Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 03:28:58 Jim Meyering wrote: > >> >>> Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> >

bug with ls

2009-02-10 Thread Jason Temple
Greetings, I was trying to recursively list all the directories, *only the directories* on a linux system (debian, 8.10) and ran into a bug. ls -d /* lists all directories in / (one level deep, expected) ls -dR /* lists all directories in / (one level deep, no recursive dir

Re: bug with ls

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Temple on 2/10/2009 3:16 PM: > Greetings, >I was trying to recursively list all the directories, *only the > directories* on a linux system (debian, 8.10) and ran into a bug. > ls -d /* lists all directories in / (one le

Re: wish of adding

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to oliv...@no-log.org on 2/10/2009 8:51 PM: > Hi Eric. Hello, Oliver, and please keep replies on the list, > > At first thank you for your answer. > And ok for here is the correct place. > > I was writing than "ls -g" was another command

Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Nick Demou wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Nick Demou wrote: >>> [...] >>> Thanks for the info Eric. I was almost sure this would be the case. In >>> fact I don't consider this as the main topic of my bug report. The >>> main topic for me is the documentation. T

Re: Bugs in unexpand(1) version 6.10

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger wrote: ... >> > i was thinking a common change to the version-etc module to add a >> > "packager" field rather than having every package out there allow people >> > to tweak PACKAGE_NAME. what do you think of that ? >> >> Sounds sensible. >> The question then becomes whether to cha