Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

2013-02-08 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 02/08/2013 10:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/08/2013 02:16 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> Clarify -l option: separate from -L to emphasize that MAX-LINES >> is optional for the -l option. > > Optional arguments to short options cannot be separated by whitespace. Good catch, thanks (althoug

Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

2013-02-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/08/2013 02:16 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > Kidding aside, another difference is that secondary lines of > a description are indented by 2 character. I added this to my > new patch. Indeed, I missed the importance of indenting subsequent lines, but a quick glance at 'ls --help' shows that

Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

2013-02-08 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 02/08/2013 03:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/08/2013 04:07 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> >> >> On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote: "), _("\ -X, --xyz some text\n\ "), _("\ -Y

Re: finding symlinks with various properties?

2013-02-08 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: > is it possible to search for symlinks based on properties (name, wholename, > etc.) of their targets? > > initially i thought something like > > $ find -L -xtype l -name foo > > would find links pointing to foo, but that doesn't seem to be th

finding symlinks with various properties?

2013-02-08 Thread Aaron Davies
is it possible to search for symlinks based on properties (name, wholename, etc.) of their targets? initially i thought something like $ find -L -xtype l -name foo would find links pointing to foo, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

2013-02-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/08/2013 04:07 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > > On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >>> "), _("\ >>> -X, --xyz some text\n\ >>> "), _("\ >>> -Yanother option with a longer\n\ >>>

Re: please cut up help text of xargs into manageable translatable chunks

2013-02-08 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On February 7, 2013 at 8:20 PM Benno Schulenberg wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013, at 0:12, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > "), _("\ > > -X, --xyz some text\n\ > > "), _("\ > > -Yanother option with a longer\n\ > > description message\n\ > > "), _("\ > > H