bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists

2021-11-29 Thread Rainer Canavan
On November 27, 2021 9:41:07 AM GMT+01:00, Paul Eggert wrote: >On 11/25/21 15:10, Warren Parad wrote: >> except mv(1) and cp(1) are both "FROM" and then "TO", but ln is backwards >> from thi, it is "TO" then "FROM" > >No, ln is exactly like mv and cp here: the source is the first argument, >and

bug#76290: "sort -u" vs "sort -h -u": possible bug

2025-02-19 Thread Rainer Canavan
On 19.02.25 18:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 2/18/25 7:45 PM, Rupert Gallagher via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: By comparison, human (-h) and numeric (-n) sort cause data loss: not really.  That's the difference between a)   "I have a list containing numbers; I merely care about numbers