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spijdar • yesterday at 12:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> nobody™ still runs coreutils from 24 years ago.

  Sprite 2.077 pc386
  
          Welcome to Sprite
  
  root@cherimoya [1] # cp --version
  GNU fileutils 3.9
  root@cherimoya [2] # cp --help | grep recurs
    -r                           copy recursively, non-directories as files
    -R, --recursive              copy directories recursively
  root@cherimoya [3] #
I'll take the honorary title of nobody ;-)

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collinfunk • today at 3:48 AM

Hey, I perfectly understand if not. But do you have the sources that were used to build those binaries?

The oldest version on the GNU ftp server is fileutils-3.13 [1]. I vaguely remember having some links to older versions, probably somewhere in my archived mail. But I don't remember if it was fileutils-3.9 or earlier.

I co-maintain GNU coreutils, so I am interested in reading them. If you have them, you can email me privately or on the public mailing list. Both are listed on the homepage [2].

[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/fileutils/ [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

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kijin • yesterday at 12:40 PM

You should have run that command as the `nobody` user.