Say, rm, cp, mv have --verbose.
How about for touch too?
Then one wouldn't need
$ set -x; touch /tmp/{a,b,c}.el; set +x
+ touch /tmp/a.el /tmp/b.el /tmp/c.el
to see what it was touching or not.
All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’,
except date(1) itself! Date should be no different...
(info "(coreutils) sort invocation") says
‘-i’
‘--ignore-nonprinting’
Ignore nonprinting characters. The ‘LC_CTYPE’ locale determines
character types...
Well this leaves the user high and dry trying to figure out what you
mean by printing characters.
Is SPC a printing character he won
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
All the other utilities respect the environment variable ‘TIME_STYLE’,
except date(1) itself! Date should be no different...
I don't think I agree. In hindsight, that environment variable was a mistake and
we shouldn't let the mistake propagate elsewhere. Standard utili
