bug#14025: Configure problem in coreutils 8.13

2013-03-21 Thread Ellis N. Thomas
Configure problem in coreutils 8.13 To: 1 Background The release used was NOT the latest, so it is quite likely that these matters have been previously addressed. On the other hand, it is possible that installation has not been attempted for this actual Unix version. Running Mac

bug#13912: Feedback on coreutils 8.13

2013-03-21 Thread Ellis N. Thomas
Bob, Thanks for your reply. Actually I don't think details of MacOS itself matter very much. In this case I am using it at the Unix level, using xterm. The Mac windows interface runs on top of the Darwin Unix kernel. At xterm level, much of the available set of commands seems to b

bug#14024: Test failure in coreutils 8.13

2013-03-21 Thread Ellis N. Thomas
Test failure in coreutils 8.13 To: 1 Background The release used was NOT the latest, so it is quite likely that these matters have been previously addressed. On the other hand, it is possible that installation has not been attempted for this actual Unix version. Running Mac OS X:

bug#14020: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x24051905

2013-03-21 Thread Joseph Chen
Not sure if this is an already known issue but I was asked to report this error: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x24051905 for '/var/log/asterisk/messages'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling This file that is being tail'ed locates on a UBIFS NAND partition.

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-21 Thread Juho-Pekka Kuitunen
Reproduce example; $ echo "testdir/testfile" | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}', dir: $(echo dirname '{}') = $(dirname '{}') Expected output; testdir/testfile, dir: dirname testdir/testfile = testdir Actual output; testdir/testfile, dir: dirname testdir/testfile = . This behavior seems to be limited to t

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: > Reproduce example; > $ echo "testdir/testfile" | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}', dir: $(echo dirname > '{}') = $(dirname '{}') Thank you for the report and the very nice test case. It made debugging this problem so very much simpler. > Expected output; > testdir/testfile,

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-21 Thread Juho-Pekka Kuitunen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: >> Reproduce example; >> $ echo "testdir/testfile" | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}', dir: $(echo dirname >> '{}') = $(dirname '{}') > > Thank you for the report and the very nice test case. It made > debugging this problem

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/21/2013 08:52 PM, Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: >>> Reproduce example; >>> $ echo "testdir/testfile" | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}', dir: $(echo dirname >>> '{}') = $(dirname '{}') >> The problem is the $(...) which