Re: Coreutilities

2024-02-10 Thread Mike Hodson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 8:24 PM Chuck Percy via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote: > > Things have gone flawlessly, including the install of Homebrew, until the > install of coreutils. > > From the response I got “command not found” I assume it was not installed? > > I suspect there was a pa

Re: A small suggestion to improve ls

2014-12-27 Thread Mike Hodson
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > find -maxdepth 1 -printf '%m ' -ls Of note, this also prints the modes that the awk script above leaves out or otherwise mangles: Find outputs exactly what I expect: 4750 812805444 100 -rwsr-x--- 1 root wheel 101896 Feb 2

Re: cloning to multiple drives with the "dd" command.

2015-02-20 Thread Mike Hodson
Hello Didier et al, On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, didier chavaroche < didier.chavaro...@distri-service.com> wrote: The way I use the dd command is the following: > > I developped a JAVA application which in a thread class call a script with > two arguments SOURCE & TARGET. > > > > In this scr

Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document

2015-03-12 Thread Mike Hodson
on that I might scroll to beyond 'ls' that isn't about 'ls'. Thus a manual page is presented as a defined, easy navigation experience. Please consider a documentation change that would place 'all documentation about $this_command' within the manual page f

Re: Is `ls` exactly the same as `dir`?

2015-05-12 Thread Mike Hodson
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, It seems that `ls` and `dir` are exactly the same after I read the > man pages. Is it the case? Hi Peng, This most certainly appears to be. The binaries on my system are 99% the same, save for a string that appears to relate to a debug symbo

Re: removal of kill?

2015-11-09 Thread Mike Hodson
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Tomas Nordin wrote: > For whatever it's worth: > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux It's not just Debian; Sabayon, and as such presumed Gentoo proper, both have a BASH which doesn't include the -L mnemonic, but

Re: removal of kill?

2015-11-09 Thread Mike Hodson
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > bash-4.4 on Gentoo certainly supports `kill -L`. > -mike My apologies; In my haste I forgot to check which version of Bash I was running. Mike

Re: ls output changes considered unacceptable

2016-02-17 Thread Mike Hodson
>On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Bernhard Voelker >wrote: >> On 02/16/2016 11:50 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> [...] We don't want those single quotes. > > > Who exactly is "we"? > > I can only speak for myself: I'm don't really care too much about > what output format is choosen. > > Have a

Re: feature request for coreutils: b2sum

2016-10-09 Thread Mike Hodson
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 09/10/16 05:59, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: >> Hello, folks! >> >> It's been about a year since the last update in this thread. I was >> reminded of it because I saw a well-intentioned project using "md5sum" >> to let its users identify a sp

[coreutils] Is, 'df' when run as UID=0 NOT privileged ? Re, FAQ question 32 and tune2fs manpage

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Hodson
I read the FAQ first, and this doesn't properly answer the question I am about to ask. As a refresher: snip 32 df Size and Used and Available do not add up The df report simply does not add up? Why not? $ df /

Re: Bug#854053: coreutils: improve 2x-3x sha256sum performance on ppc64le due to current gcc optimization bug

2017-02-03 Thread Mike Hodson
Hi All, I'm not sure if this is the bug you are referring to; it would appear to have started 10 years ago and affects far more than 4.9>7? Or did someone perhaps revert a patch that may have come from this? https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32523 is the bug that was first found in 200

Fwd: Re: "full" man pages, please?

2017-03-21 Thread Mike Hodson
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Mike Hodson" Date: Mar 21, 2017 12:26 PM Subject: Re: "full" man pages, please? To: "Bernhard Voelker" Cc: I third this, and have mentioned it in the past at least once if not more than... Why is it so hard to te

Re: ln: make symbolic links default

2017-04-04 Thread Mike Hodson
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) < kenneth.nel...@conduent.com> wrote: > > What is the transition plan? For example, I have scripts that create hard > links, and I want them to continue to create hard links. What can I do in > advance to modify my scripts so that when the

Re: [SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

2018-02-20 Thread Mike Hodson
Dear Boruch, Let me start out by saying that your request of doing something new in a compiled tool, which can be done with scripting in the shell as it works now, albeit with a slight bit more typing, goes directly against the UNIX mentality of "do one thing, and do it well" modular design paradi

Re: bug#32127: RFE -- in the way "cp -rl" -- enable 'ln' to do likewise?

2018-07-18 Thread Mike Hodson
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:24 AM L A Walsh wrote: > In the case of creating a link to a directory there is > no choice in creating a "working solution". If you want a link > there, it HAS to be a symlink. That the user would bother to > use the 'ln' (link) command in the first place is a suffici

Re: Feature request

2020-12-13 Thread Mike Hodson
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 08:51 Ed Neville wrote: > > The work around I suppose is to use dd or rsync > > dd if=... of=... status=progress > > rsync -avP While not part of Coreutils or with as much historical provenance as dd and rsync, the task of relocating a file with progress bar or any oth

Re: Feature request

2020-12-13 Thread Mike Hodson
My apologies for another mail but my pedantism is causing me to want to correct myself. On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 17:26 Mike Hodson wrote: > > pv < filetocopy > outputfile > > It also works without the input redirect, but is flexible and can fit anywhere within a pipeli

Re: expr shouldn't use spaces

2022-12-19 Thread Mike Hodson
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:52 PM David Chmelik wrote: > In this case /POSIX/ has the new/fancy syntax breaking millennia > tradition... I understand POSIX should be followed, but because of this, > now I don't trust them on virtually anything, and many tools are > extended/configurable to do more

Re: Noob question: mv is hard to debug with GDB

2022-12-26 Thread Mike Hodson
Hello Stéphane, I suspect you are compiling the source for Coreutils against system libraries. If so, you should also install the debug symbols or separate library packages (depending on distro they can be provided somewhat differently) for the packages you have installed, at least, for the depend

Re: coreutils/man/rm.x - fails to mention POSIX "Refuse to remove path/. and path/.., as well as `.' and `..'

2023-09-23 Thread Mike Hodson
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, 12:47 Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi, > > James Feeney writes: > > > coreutils 9.3 > > coreutils/man/rm.x > > > > Even though "rm" was modified, > the rm(1) man page completely fails to mention this particular POSIX > > promise. > Language should be added to the GNU rm man