Re: date does not support pipes

ts"; } Instead of: stat --format "%Y" check.txt | date This is inconvenient. Would it be possible to implement reading from stdin in date? Best, Philip date -r check.txt ? -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: [PATCH] ls: add --sort=width (-W) option to sort by filename width

terminal what it's tab stops are set at rather than having to tell it manually? I only found -T4 recently (must read more man pages). -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: sort:An unexpected result is displayed in the sort result.

ed design? Thanks, Yang Yanchao Try -V instead of -n -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: [PATCH 1/1] dircolors: highlight .avif as image

can you not just adjust /etc/DIR_COLORS (or .dircolors) - see man DIR_COLORS -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: question on using the -n option for sorting

? Thank you for letting me know. I attach a short 100 line sample file which was extracted from the 29,984 line actual close.2 file. Randall -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: date (zoneinfo database?) mixes up the AM and the PM for some New Zealand locations

ICS). Brisbane is in Australia zone. See: /usr/share/zoneinfo/ for what is legal. find /usr/share/zoneinfo -name Wellington (for example). -- Chris Elvidge England

Re: Suggest `isemptydir` for addition to coreutils

pt -s dotglob nullglob local f=("$1"/*) # return to original status for i in ${globstatus[@]}; do eval "$i"; done [ "${#f[@]}" -eq 0 ] } || { [ -f "$1" ] || return 1 [ -s "$1" ] && return 1 || return 0 } } -- Chris Elvidge England