bug#69535: Problem with copying an EXTREMELY large file - cmp finds a mismatch

2024-03-03 Thread Brian
or its derivatives. I'm a (retired) scientist turned database programmer, I know Pascal, FORTRAN and SQL, and that's about it. Thanks, Brian.

bug#69535: Problem with copying an EXTREMELY large file - cmp finds a mismatch

2024-03-04 Thread Brian
On 3/4/24 03:10, Paul Eggert wrote: Try running 'strace -o tr cp data.dat original' and then look at the file 'tr' (which could be quite large). Look for the syscalls near the start, and near the end, of the bulk copy. Quite possibly it's a bug in your Linux drivers or your firmware or hardwa

bug#69535: update

2024-03-08 Thread brian
Sorry for the delay in updating this problem - I've been doing some testing! The first thing I did was wrote a quick and dirty Pascal program to do a byte-by-byte comparison of the data files, just in case it was cmp that was causing the problem, not cp. The results were the same using my

Re: date +%s ignores TZ

2008-02-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I wanted to get the number of seconds since the start of the day. > > echo $[`date +%s` % 86400]; How about: echo $[$(date +%s) - $(date -d '' +%s)] Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-cor

Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

2008-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
issue. In addition, there's the possibility of doing this in-place if there's not enough free space and/or if the size of the header fits into memory, however that is dangerous since you suffer data loss if interrupted. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils

Makefile.am issue (and patch)

2008-07-03 Thread Brian Silverman
x,:') cu=cu-;; *) cu= ;; esac;\ -$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) binPROGRAMS_INSTALL=./ginstall\ +$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) \ $${cu}install-binPROGRAMS @$(NORMAL_INSTALL) $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) install-exec-hook -- Brian Silverman Concept X, LLC __

Re: md5sum results with V5.2.1 and V5.97 differ

2008-08-14 Thread Brian Dessent
the seven characters "654321\n". Use echo -n if you don't want the newline included. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: cut - lack of --merge-delimiters option

2008-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
rwin's or Sun's or the BSD's, etc. In short: adding options to standard commands when a portable solution already exists does not make a lot of sense, and the coreutils maintainers are very resistant to doing it as a result. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: weird bug in tr (translate or delete character)

2008-09-22 Thread Brian Dessent
-d '[:alpha:]' You commonly see this also with find, where you have to quote globs that you want to survive past the shell without interpolation and be passed on to the command: find . -name '*.ext' Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

su vulnerability on coreutils 6.9 (64-bit Linux)

2008-09-25 Thread Brian Biswas
I have built the coreutils 6.9 package (the latest) on a 64-bit x86 Linux system (Linux 2.6). If as myself (not root) I type: % su I become root. No password asked! Note: This software resides in AFS space. If I build it locally, the problem does not occur. BTW, I've also built coreutils

Re: Possible bug with grep/sed/tail?

2008-11-20 Thread Brian Dessent
cho "foo"; sleep 1; done ) | LD_PRELOAD=./linebuf.so grep foo | cat foo foo foo ... # immediate output Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Possible bug with grep/sed/tail?

2008-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
end to be compiler specific though. I'd be more concerned about the portability of LD_PRELOAD, which tends to be a feature of ELF systems. Cygwin does provide an emulation of LD_PRELOAD however, so the example at least does work there as well, modulo s/-fPIC// and s/.so/.dll/. Brian _

Re: du --files-from feature request

2008-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
the only reliable way to deal with arbitrary filenames without complicated quoting is to \0-delimit them. Using tr to convert newlines to \0 fails if you have filenames with newlines in them, not to mention that it's pointless overhead. Brian ___ B

New Feature Desired for tail

2009-05-06 Thread Brian McQueen
The new feature is demonstrated by a wrapper script around tail which gives me the ability to use tail to drive arbitrary alerts like this (only the core concept lines are shown): # put it into the background tail -n 0 -f error_file > working_file & #wait for some lines to arrive while !

RE: New Feature Desired for tail

2009-05-07 Thread Brian McQueen
shes early, instead of waiting for the full 30 minute time interval, its Ctrl-C and the captured lines are sent to stdout and captured in the test report. -Original Message- From: j...@gmail.com [mailto:j...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of James Youngman Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:59 AM

Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF

2005-05-06 Thread Brian Dessent
length data. It just doesn't seem very likely that you would actually ever want dd to operate in text mode. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Maybe a bug

2005-06-21 Thread Brian Dessent
~/whatever However, when you view the .txt file with 'less' it will likely be fairly unintelligible, certainly not a plain text log. Though if you 'cat' it to a terminal you will recreate the scp output in fast-forward mode. Brian ___

Re: base64 tool?

2005-06-28 Thread Brian Dessent
ngs as a command line argument at all. If you want to accept short strings you can always do 'echo foo | base64 -' or similar. In your examples of perl/sed/grep those all take program/script code (or in the case of grep, a regular expressi

Re: "line" utility

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Dessent
sed -n 11,+10p # gnu sed only Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: coreutils version number policy

2005-07-17 Thread Brian Dessent
bout portability then you don't have to bother checking for anything because you will be responsible for knowing that the tools support whatever feature you want to use. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: test binary

2005-07-21 Thread Brian Dessent
tring, but then if one of the found files had a space in its name you would end up invoking test with invalid syntax. You could play quoting games to get around that but I find using -printf to be simpler. YMMV. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

renameutils 0.6.0

2005-08-10 Thread Brian Hall
via execve to be: #1 all arguments passed to imv/icp on the command line (not --help,etc) #2 -- #3 file argument #1 #4 file argument #2 Maybe the version of coreutils (mv,cp) you're using is different than mine? I am runing Gentoo 2005.1 on ~amd64. > epm -q coreutils coreutils-5.2.1-r6

Re: (Query): Changing the Functionality of rm Command

2005-08-17 Thread Brian Dessent
ctually trying to achieve, rather that the particular method you are trying to use. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: chown - Operation not permitted

2005-09-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Bob Proulx wrote: > Please see this frequently given answer in the reference below. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ > > Look for "Why can only root chown files?" Incidently, there is an incomplete sentence in that section of the FAQ ("Such as creating..."). BrianIndex: coreuti

Re: Suggestion for new coreutil: "every" prints every M out of N lines

2005-10-14 Thread Brian Dessent
like cat(1). Every(1) can also work > on bytes or blocks instead of lines. Can't you pretty much achieve the same thing with: awk '(FNR-1) % M < N' file Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Incorrect lexographical sort in sort (coreutils)5.2.1

2005-10-27 Thread Brian Dessent
gt; version0/data/r=2 146839.1 > version0/data/r=2/1/51 10.9 > version0/data/r=2/1/52 6.6 > version0/data/r=2/1/54 7.5 This is working correctly as designed, though probably not how you expected. <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-d

Re: Feature request: ignore non-existant files with diff -r

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
"Bryce Nesbitt (mailing list account)" wrote: > This is a request for a command line switch to "diff -r", The diff command is not a part of coreutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gn

Re: ls -L should say just what file doesn't exist

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
something similar in another thread and one of the responses made the point that in order to implement this, the program would have to potentially traverse a number of links (e.g. xx -> yy -> zz) and in doing so it would need to be careful not to get stuck in a loop (xx -> yy -&g

Re: logwatch bug - script zz-disk_space

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
has nothing to do with that script or any other distro-specific file. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort

2005-12-05 Thread Brian Dessent
w.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. I wouldn't expect it to be changed any time soon. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort

2005-12-05 Thread Brian Dessent
e various To/CC/BCC/whatever fields. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-20 Thread Brian Dessent
what you expected to happen, etc. Your message does not include nearly enough information. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Sort bug

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Read the FAQ. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bug#340236: coreutils: cp -p to nfs destination failsto preserve timestamps

2005-12-22 Thread Brian Dessent
rnel headers? It sounds like you're using an old strace with a newer kernel. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: something iteresting

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Bob Proulx wrote: > You probably wanted the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for asking > for gcc help. That sound probably be gcc-help (at) gcc.gnu.org Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

[ program

2006-01-02 Thread Brian Beck
ran the program with "]" as an argument. It returned nothing. I was wondering if that [ program is supposed to be there, or if it's a typo. If I run info [ I get the info page for test, so I wasn't certain if they were related. Thanks, Brian __

Re: Localization based problem with sort

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Dirk Stoecker wrote: > So please tell me a way to use the sort program in contexts which allow no > environment variable settings. I will be happy to accept it. You can use "env LC_COLLATE=C sort -opts" as the sort command. Or 'sh -c "LC_COLL

Re: dircolors aliases

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Dessent
or is it part of a configuration file? You must be using a patched coreutils because none of that alias junk is in the official tarballs. Check the patches that your distribution adds. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http:

Re: Filename pattern in grep --include=....

2006-02-02 Thread Brian Dessent
ompared to trying to make grep do this job. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Slash appears twice using ls -ldF

2006-02-03 Thread Brian Beck
mation: ls (coreutils) 5.2.1 (5.2.1-2ubuntu2) Thanks, Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: make error

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Dessent
kind of Makefile that expects to call LINK.EXE (the Microsoft linker) to do linking, but instead it is trying to invoke /bin/link from coreutils. In that case it's a problem with his Makefile and/or his PATH and/or his environment, but has nothing to do with Cygwin or coreutils. Brian __

Re: Possible bug w/sort: As of coreutils-5.9x, sort loses command-linecolumn offset (e.g. +1.0n)

2006-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
"John P. Eisenmenger" wrote: > So is this a bug, or do I just need to learn the new way of specifying > column offsets? It's not a bug. See the NEWS file. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://

Re: error in date command

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Dessent
from the cron job they are not set and the default "C" locale is used. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: patch: contrib/compare_tests

2006-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
t was not valid C++0x the response would be exactly the same, "fix your code" not "g++ is buggy for not accepting this broken code and should be boycotted." Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: `configure' and `make/bison' build issues

2006-05-10 Thread Brian Dessent
d never be hand edited, so I don't see how you would get conflicts. Consult the CVS manual for information on conflicts, there is a whole section about this (10.3 in my copy.) You should have gotten a warning from cvs that there were conflicts (and/or seen "C" as the status c

Re: `configure' and `make/bison' build issues

2006-05-11 Thread Brian Dessent
odifies a configure.ac or similar input file that would ever set the stage for a conflict in a generated file, and this type of change is comparitively rare -- certainly not something that I would expect from the OP who stated that he has yet to successfully

Re: comm command bug while using with Tilda delimited files

2006-05-25 Thread Brian Dessent
g like: $ echo -e "5~30\n55~40" | sort 55~40 5~30 It works when you use "," because that character comes before the digits in the ascii order. Run your input files through 'sort' before passing them to 'comm'. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: "ls -h -l" returns 255GB, while "ls -l" returns 272 gigabytes

2006-10-25 Thread Brian Dessent
a "250GB" hard drive you are getting 250 billion bytes, which is actually a factor of (1000/1024)**3 smaller in GB. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: mv command fails on files >4GB

2006-10-31 Thread Brian Dessent
ng to move the file from e.g. ext2/3 to a brain-dead filesystem (e.g. FAT32) which has a 4GB limit. That's also not something that mv can deal with, it's a limitation of the filesystem that cannot be avoided. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Feature-Request: random sort

2006-11-15 Thread Brian Dessent
#x27; more than once. The choice of hash function is affected by the `--random-source' option. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Replacing text?

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Dessent
I need to "parse" text from a file or input, and replace a string and > put conclusion to output. That's way too generic of a description to really be able to offer any concrete advice. > I tried to find a way, but I didn't:( http://www.orei

Re: [coreutils] "cut" from last column

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Dessent
above expression by > writing: > > cut -f 3,5-+3 myfile How about: perl -F'\t' -nae 'print join "\t", @F[2,4..$#F-3]' myfile Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [coreutils] "cut" from last column

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Dessent
hen you try to add features to programs like 'cut' that have existed for probably decades and that are standardized by IEEE/POSIX, and have multiple implementations (i.e. not everybody uses GNU cut.) Any features you add become GNU extensions, and can't be used in anything but pri

Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

2006-12-09 Thread Brian Dessent
d paste, it is a way to tell readline to take the next keystroke literally, and it works in any readline app (e.g. gdb.) Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: rmdir problem in Molinux

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dessent
x distribution not support -rf? And what is the solution? -r and -f are options for rm, not rmdir. They are different commands. Note that you can always run "command --help" or "info command" or "man command" if you want to see what options it supports. Brian ___

Re: rm doesnt' delete

2007-01-12 Thread Brian Dessent
quot; idiom. For details and examples run "info find" or "info xargs" and browse. These commands are extremely flexible and the way to go for doing most tasks involving recursively searching for all files of a given specification. Pretty much the

Re: basename sucks

2007-02-01 Thread Brian Dessent
dusan halicky wrote: > This is the exact case why to do it, look at \"my\" version: > > $ cat filename | basename Arg! Why why why do people do this nonsense? There is *NO* reason to use cat here. "basename http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: cp should look for destination file operand BEFORE wildcardexpansion

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Dessent
sign. The original intent of unix was along the lines of "a lot of small programs, each that do one thing really well." In that vein, the shell does all globbing (and variable expansion/substitution, quoting, etc.) for all program invocations, rather than having to add glob expan

Re: dirname - bug or feature?

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Dessent
sort | uniq > /tmp/test > /tmp/test/a > /tmp/test/b > /tmp/test/c > /tmp/test/d Now why in the world would you go to all that trouble? You're listing every single file and directory in the tree, only to then go and strip the filename component entirely, resulting in

Re: chown - not like other Unixes.

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam G wrote: > I was wondering why the gnu chown doesn't have an option to behave > like other unixes, where the 'owner' of a file can chown. FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Why-can-only-root-chown-files_003f ___ Bug-coreutils mailing

basename -bash generates an error

2007-04-18 Thread Brian Matheson
more information. Looks like a misbehavior in option parsing. Randomly, Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: basename -bash generates an error

2007-04-18 Thread Brian Matheson
Thanks guys, you learn something new every day. Cheers, Brian Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Brian Matheson on 4/18/2007 8:34 PM: > > Old behavior: > > red:~$ basename $0 > > -bash &

Re: sort by line length

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Dessent
; 1 > aa > 938 > four > a Not to derail on perl golfing but how about just: $ perl -e 'print sort {length($a)<=>length($b)} <>' file Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: comm separator document tab

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Dessent
s, use the info documentation. If you don't like the 'info' program there are numerous alternatives, the easiest of which is HTML: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/comm-invocation.html>. The ability to specify som

Re: Potential Bug Report

2007-06-22 Thread Brian Dessent
bsent and so you end up passing each word of the date string as a separate argument, which is invalid input to date, which complains. Everywhere that you have $TDATE you need to use "$TDATE". Note that just using quotes when you assign to TD

Re: aux.* as filename

2007-06-26 Thread Brian Dessent
s <http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/> so that it is relatively well understood. As a very rough analogy to POSIX systems, using it might be likened to making direct int 0x80 syscalls on a POSIX system rather than going through the libc... i.e. somewhat ugly.) Brian

Re: Can't set the timezone for "date".

2007-07-23 Thread Brian Dessent
On Darwin, do this; On FreeBSD, do this; On Windows, do this." Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
ldn't it? I don't think it should. It would require much more context for a generic options parser to speculatively treat certain groupings of options as filenames, test for existance of those files, and change behavior dynamically. That kind of thing would be rife with co

Re: bug in /bin/test ?

2007-08-25 Thread Brian Dessent
t -z "$casa"; echo $? 0 You might have also seen the idiom 'test "x$foo" = x' which is another way of dealing with this problem, as well as several others such the case when $foo is "=" or a value that starts with a dash. Brian _

Re: what will happen to the --reply option?

2007-08-25 Thread Brian Dessent
alessandro salvatori wrote: > On top of that the only way for me to get the desired behaviour of skipping > existing files seems to be: See the previous thread from earlier this month: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg0.htm

Re: chmod problem

2007-09-05 Thread Brian Dessent
mod 0700 testme'. Can it be > done in 1 step using an octal number? Read these threads for the past history on this behavior: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-07/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00132.html Brian

Re: feature request: zero-terminated lines for comm

2007-09-09 Thread Brian Dessent
| xargs showargs argv[0] = 'showargs' argv[1] = 'one' argv[2] = 'two' argv[3] = 'three' argv[4] = 'four' I don't see how the xargs -L option has anything to do with the situation. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: feature request: zero-terminated lines for comm

2007-09-10 Thread Brian Dessent
of using xargs. So I still maintain that xargs without -print0/-0 is deficient. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bugreport for ChMod

2007-10-09 Thread Brian Dessent
; -o - --subnodes 2>/dev/null | wc 28815289654 That's a fifteen-hundred word explanation on the syntax and meaning behind symbolic modes, and there are 19 examples by my count. --help output and man pages are supposed to be short and concise. Brian

Re: linecut development

2007-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
but very few end up making it in, because the project sets quite a high standard: no size/space limitations, full texinfo and --help/man documentation, testcases, implementing features not found in the existing unix toolset, etc. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mail

Re: coreutils: Where is the repository of the manual pages?

2007-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Jari Aalto wrote: > Could you point me to the manual (info?) sources and document > which explains the build procedure for *.N files. The .x files are just skeletons. The meat of the man pages are generated automatically from the --help output of each binary with the help2man script.

Re: Bug in cat

2007-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
"Cutler, David" wrote: > When I downloaded Cygwin, I specified the use of DOS line terminators. > > I found a bug in what I suspect is cat when used with a simple bash shell > script. Since you're using Cygwin, the Cygwin mailing list is a better place to post this because most coreutils develo

Re: [cp v5.97] --noreply erroneously depreciated

2007-12-20 Thread Brian Dessent
have prompted, and thus the file would be overwritten despite the user giving --reply=no. This was the source of much confusion and the reason why it the option was deprecated, because it did work in the manner that people expected. Brian ___ Bug-co

Re: Canceling interactive mode - cp

2007-12-23 Thread Brian Dessent
to invoke the non-aliased version of the command: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-03/msg00099.html> (or better, not have any troublesome aliases in the first place, but obviously people are free to do whatever works best for them.) Brian

Re: argve0, psfool

2007-12-24 Thread Brian Dessent
eutils. perl -e 'exec { "real" } "fake", "arg1", "arg2"' As an observer of this list I have noted that coreutils maintainers are highly reticent to add new commands to coreutils that are trivially implemented with existing standard commands. Brian

coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message)

2008-01-16 Thread Brian Biswas
hy the error message? If I compile the same code on tiger and run it on leopard I don't get that error message (and the copy is done correctly). ??? --Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" failure on Linux 2.6

2008-01-17 Thread Brian Biswas
system. Someone suggested recompiling coreutils with HAVE_BUGGY_NFS_TIME_STAMPS defined. I did recompile with that define and it did fix the problem. Just another data point. --Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: coreutils 6.9 "cp -p" fails on leopard (erroneous error message)

2008-01-17 Thread Brian Biswas
x27;s is probably not something we should do, though. ??? --Brian On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Brian Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running coreutils 6.9 on leopard 10.5.1. % cp file1 file2 works correctly. However: % cp -p file1 file2

Re: Building portions of coreutils

2008-02-03 Thread Brian Dessent
reason for the creation of MSYS was to do exactly what you just said. If it were possible to build coreutils (and bash, etc) without an emulation layer like MSYS then it would never have been created. Brian ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutil

troubles chrooting oidentd

2003-12-21 Thread Brian Kreulen
stupid, but all my googling says that it should be up and running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Brian Kreulen "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time" --T.S. Eliot __

bug#20575: possible bug with false?

2015-05-14 Thread Brian Walsh
'false --help' and 'false --version' print nothing and return an error. I honestly don't know if it's working as intended. If not, the man page needs to be updated.

bug#26766: Bug found while using 'tail' in a Docker container

2017-05-03 Thread Brian Drawert
e a Docker container (Ubunut 14.04 as the client OS). The command I executed is: tail -f stderr.log I am happy to provide followup information or testing. Thanks, Brian Drawert

bug#33433: Bug in directory listing display

2018-11-19 Thread Brian Hartvigsen
quotes in their titles are now displayed incorrectly. This bug also breaks existing scripts all over the place. Please resolve this bug on the next release. Brian Hartvigsen

bug#36383: date command processes timezone differently when doing math

2019-06-25 Thread Brian Woods
When doing a math operation to a date command it appear to process the timezone differently. The system is Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. Versions: coreutils/bionic,now 8.28-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed] #echo $datNow 2019-06-25 15:21:34 #date -d "$datNow " "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" --debug date: parsed date part:

bug#50972: src/ls.c fails to build when __GNUC_PREREQ is not defined (e.g., OpenBSD)

2021-10-02 Thread Brian Callahan
ere are no test failures for coreutils-9.0 on x86_64-unknown-openbsd7.0 Thanks. ~Brian

bug#50972: src/ls.c fails to build when __GNUC_PREREQ is not defined (e.g., OpenBSD)

2021-10-03 Thread Brian Callahan
e virtually no warnings during the build (even before these fixes). I can send you a build log offlist if you'd like to see what the 7.0 build looks like. ~Brian

bug#50972: src/ls.c fails to build when __GNUC_PREREQ is not defined (e.g., OpenBSD)

2021-10-03 Thread Brian Callahan
On 10/03/2021 01:42 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/2/21 8:14 PM, Brian Callahan wrote: I can send you a build log offlist if you'd like to see what the 7.0 build looks like. It sounds like the more-recent clang has fixed most of the false alarms. It'd probably be a more-efficient

bug#73865: cp 9.1+ fails to overwrite existing files even with -f under Cygwin

2024-10-18 Thread Brian Inglis
d over many releases with rebases to root inode handling and allowing case insensitivity that do not appear to have had any other effect on the flow or operations. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection

bug#73865: cp 9.1+ fails to overwrite existing files even with -f under Cygwin

2024-10-29 Thread Brian . Inglis
On 2024-10-18 11:32, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2024-10-18 09:47, Brian Inglis wrote: Hi folks, Versions of coreutils cp from 9.1-9.5 have been failing with error message:  "cp: cannot create regular file '/tmp/b/c': File exists" to overwrite existing files even with -f

bug#74094: chgrp/chmod/chown fails to recognize "root" and respect --preserve-root under Cygwin

2024-10-29 Thread Brian Inglis
to override, but ch??? redefine -f to --silent, --quiet, so would have to mandate the long --force option with --preserve-root, and also change the docs! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved no

chown clears suid bit!

2006-04-12 Thread Brian K. White
leys I chased down, the end result was that chown now clears the suid bit from files it acts upon. As the man page doesn't mention this, and it's certainly new behaviour, and certainly deviant from every other unix, I submit that it should not do this. Thanks Brian K. White -- [EM

Re: chown clears suid bit!

2006-04-13 Thread Brian K. White
e previously in the case of a no-op it really did (what I think) the more sensible thing, nothing. Anyways. As long as it's documented and can be counted on not to change (any more), then it's fine... Thanks much Brian K. White -- [E

Re: chown clears suid bit!

2006-04-13 Thread Brian K. White
- Original Message - From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian K. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:42 AM Subject: Re: chown clears suid bit! Brian K. White wrote: Your explanations do make sense but it sure

Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:

2009-12-02 Thread Brian K. White
Jim Meyering wrote: Hello, While writing a few tests for userspec (below), I was surprised to re-learn that chown USER_NAME: has a special meaning. It is a shorthand for chown USER_NAME:+$(id -g USER_NAME) ... I had expected it to be equivalent to this: chown USER_NAME ... Since the above beha

bug#44704: uniq: replace repeated lines with a message about how many repeated lines

2020-11-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
It would be a useful enhancement to uniq to replace all lines considered non-uniq (i.e. those that would be removed from the output) with a message about how many times the previous line was repeated. I.e. $ cat < signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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