coreutils-7.5 soon?

2009-06-27 Thread Jim Meyering
There have been enough interesting changes that it seems worthwhile to make a release soon. As I see it, the most notable are the new program, stdbuf, and tail's addition of inotify support. Here are the NEWS entries: - ** Bug fixes truncate -s failed

Re: BUG in tr when lowercase letters 'o', 'p' & 'e' file names in the same directory

2009-06-27 Thread Gaafer Goreish
Thanks for the clarification. My fault, I totally missed the shell expansion. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gaafer Goreish wrote: > > I discovered that if there is a file with the one lowercase letter name > 'o' > > or 'p' or 'e' in the same directory where the tr command

sort +k

2009-06-27 Thread Wayne Power
Greetings, Imagine my surprise, piping the output of some command to sort +1 and seeing ... sort: open failed: +1: No such file or directory WTF? sort -k? Is there any good reason you decided to break every every shell script I've written in the last 30 years that uses sort? Is this a

Re: sort +k

2009-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Wayne Power on 6/27/2009 11:52 AM: > sort: open failed: +1: No such file or directory > > WTF? sort -k? Is there any good reason you decided to break every > every shell script I've written in the last 30 years that uses sort? Yes, and

feature request: -0 option for tr

2009-06-27 Thread Craig Sanders
please add a -0 option to tr, which is equivalent to running: tr '\n' '\000' this is a useful command for converting \n-terminated input lines to null-terminated strings suitable for feeding into 'xargs -0' as many programs can not generate null-terminated ouput by themselves. it would also

Savannah report new bug link not obvious

2009-06-27 Thread jidanni
Logged in to https://savannah.gnu.org/ the user cannot find the link to "report a new bug". ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

document or fix dangers of sort -u + any other option

2009-06-27 Thread jidanni
Please fix the third command, $ echo -e 'a1\nb2\nc3\nb2'|sort -n|sort -u a1 b2 c3 $ echo -e 'a1\nb2\nc3\nb2'|sort -u|sort -n a1 b2 c3 $ echo -e 'a1\nb2\nc3\nb2'|sort -nu a1 or warn right there on the man page. Sure, you say -u, --unique with -c, check for strict ordering; w

Re: Savannah report new bug link not obvious

2009-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=coreutils the page you are looking for? Giuseppe jida...@jidanni.org writes: > Logged in to https://savannah.gnu.org/ > the user cannot find the link to "report a new bug". ___ Bug-coreutils maili

Re: Savannah report new bug link not obvious

2009-06-27 Thread jidanni
> "GS" == Giuseppe Scrivano writes: GS> jida...@jidanni.org writes: >> Logged in to https://savannah.gnu.org/ >> the user cannot find the link to "report a new bug". GS> Is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=coreutils the page GS> you are looking for? Ah, indeed it is. OK, all

Re: Savannah report new bug link not obvious

2009-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to jida...@jidanni.org on 6/27/2009 8:42 PM: > Logged in to https://savannah.gnu.org/ > the user cannot find the link to "report a new bug". Actually, for coreutils, we are just as happy with email bug reports (as requested by the --help out

Re: feature request: -0 option for tr

2009-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Craig Sanders on 6/27/2009 7:20 PM: > please add a -0 option to tr, which is equivalent to > running: > > tr '\n' '\000' Why should we burn an option letter, when it is not that much more typing to get what you wanted anyways? An op

Re: Savannah report new bug link not obvious

2009-06-27 Thread jidanni
EB> Actually, for coreutils, we are just as happy with email bug reports (as Well do leave a path for those of us who have been toiled-trained by e.g., Bugzilla that the only real report is a browser generated report, and can't find the "Pavlov's dogs lever", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical

sort and multiple -k options

2009-06-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
i cant figure out if i'm doing something stupid here or sort is doing something wrong ... consider this (reduced) input: /path/._cfg_asciidoc.conf%/path/%._cfg_%asciidoc.conf /path/._cfg_docbook.conf%/path/%._cfg_%docbook.conf /path/._cfg0001_asciidoc.conf%/path/%._cfg0001_%asciid