bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:52:02 -0800
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0

On 17/02/19 13:00, Paul Eggert wrote:
> You make good points about nohup. Still, it's too bad that we'd have to add a 
> new command for such a trivial thing.
> 
> Perhaps it'd be better to overload 'env' instead, as you proposed earlier. 
> After 
> all, env is already being used for another little environmental thing (namely 
> changing directories), and if we find future needs for yet other little 
> things 
> (running with a different umask, say) we can put them under 'env' as well.

+1






reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]