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Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (13 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (18 bugs)

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#32272 [n|+| ] [coreutils] [PATCH] iscntrl: behavior for chars >= 0x80
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 6 years and 326 days ago; Modified 6 years and 326 days ago;
#39827 [n|+|=] [coreutils] [PATCH] dircolors: add *direct* to TERM matching
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:01:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Merged with 49745; Filed 5 years and 108 days ago; Modified 3 years and 273 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (13 bugs)

#10054 [n| | ] [coreutils] [cp] 8.13: cp -au may replace newer files [sr #107876]
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:08:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 13 years and 215 days ago; Modified 12 years and 291 days ago;
#11621 [n| | ] [coreutils] questionable locale sorting order (especially as related to char ranges in REs)
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 22:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 13 years and 14 days ago; Modified 13 years and 10 days ago;
#12630 [n| | ] [coreutils] dd doesn't print out the need for iflags=fullblocks, consistently as it is intended to; and manpage clarification?
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:55:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 12 years and 248 days ago; Modified 12 years and 248 days ago;
#15157 [n| | ] [coreutils] join doesn't follow norms and dies instead of doing something useful w/duplicate options
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:46:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 300 days ago; Modified 11 years and 298 days ago;
#15738 [n| | ] [coreutils] cp: "cp -a A B" doesn't reliably create 'B' as copy of A
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:25:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 233 days ago; Modified 6 years and 156 days ago;
#17103 [n| | ] [coreutils] cp: "cp -al" doesn't copy symlinks, tries to link to them
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 83 days ago; Modified 6 years and 156 days ago;
#17138 [n| | ] [coreutils] cp: how to respect target symlinks?
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:04:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 80 days ago; Modified 6 years and 156 days ago;
#35212 [n| | ] [coreutils] problem docs vs. implementation
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 68 days ago; Modified 6 years and 68 days ago;
#36688 [n| | ] [coreutils] uname no longer accessing hw-platform nor cpu (not updated to use primary info source)
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:13:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 335 days ago; Modified 5 years and 335 days ago;
#42034 [n| | ] [coreutils] option to truncate at end or should that be default?
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 356 days ago; Modified 4 years and 356 days ago;
#42358 [n| | ] [coreutils] mv w/mkdir -p of destination
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:38:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 336 days ago; Modified 4 years and 335 days ago;
#44444 [n| | ] [coreutils] RFE for 'env'?
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:28:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 223 days ago; Modified 4 years and 221 days ago;
#48002 [n| | ] [coreutils] Gnu design flaw fixes hindered by Gnu (sexism?) biases
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:05:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 52 days ago; Modified 3 years and 114 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (2 bugs)

#34340 [n|M| ] [coreutils] cp -a doesn't copy acls
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 23:52:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 6 years and 131 days ago; Modified 6 years and 128 days ago;
#47059 [n|M| ] [coreutils] bug in cp removing destination file when it can't be replaced due to cross-volume linking
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:42:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 4 years and 97 days ago; Modified 3 years and 110 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (18 bugs)

#10055 [w| | ] [coreutils] cp: cp -u corrupts 'fs'' information if interupted; can't
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 215 days ago; Modified 6 years and 244 days ago;
#14283 [w| | ] [coreutils] ls: display presence of capabilities on a file
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 12 years and 51 days ago; Modified 6 years and 241 days ago;
#15727 [w| | ] [coreutils] doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 03:49:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 233 days ago; Modified 6 years and 156 days ago;
#16287 [w| | ] [coreutils] rm: add "-x" option alias for --one-file-system
Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 170 days ago; Modified 6 years and 240 days ago;
#25553 [w| | ] [coreutils] How many coreutils rely on tabs to align things (other, than 'du'?
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 140 days ago; Modified 8 years and 136 days ago;
#25817 [w| | ] [coreutils] rm: add option to avoid early exit on "."
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:42:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 116 days ago; Modified 6 years and 230 days ago;
#27240 [w| | ] [coreutils] ln: improve -v/verbose message (arrow direction)
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 21:14:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 12 days ago; Modified 6 years and 230 days ago;
#28036 [w| |=] [coreutils] cp: suppress duplicated errors, silence errors completely
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 28341; Filed 7 years and 310 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#28766 [w| | ] [coreutils] stat: don't display non-platform fields
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 19:43:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 250 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#30928 [w| | ] [coreutils] nice: add option to abort on failure to change priority
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:50:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 84 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#32127 [w| | ] [coreutils] ln: add option to fall-back to softlink if hardlink fails
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:30:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 340 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#33155 [w| | ] [coreutils] cp: copy from symlink -> to symlink?
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:59:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 234 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#33786 [w|N| ] [coreutils] doc: sort: document Debian's version-sort algorithm
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 07:13:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: notabug; Filed 6 years and 180 days ago; Modified 6 years and 180 days ago;
#34345 [w| | ] [coreutils] dd: report elapsed time as HH:MM:SS.NNNNNNN
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:51:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 130 days ago; Modified 6 years and 127 days ago;
#36901 [w| | ] [coreutils] mv: merge directories where target already exists
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 03:35:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 317 days ago; Modified 5 years and 314 days ago;
#45924 [w| | ] [coreutils] RFE: rmdir -r: recursively remove [empty] directories under the target.
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:31:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years and 150 days ago; Modified 3 years and 114 days ago;
#49428 [w| | ] [coreutils] RFE: for --time have option to only include contents, not dir itself.
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 05:21:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 344 days ago; Modified 3 years and 114 days ago;
#49994 [w| | ] [coreutils] upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size"
Reported by: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:58:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 308 days ago; Modified 3 years and 299 days ago;

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GNU bug report logs: bugs submitted by coreutils <at> tlinx.org

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