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mktemp: respect TMPDIR environment variable

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Change `mktemp` so that it respects the value of the `TMPDIR` environment variable, if no directory is otherwise specified in its arguments. For example, before this commit $ TMPDIR=. mktemp...

Get remaining GNU test cases from ERROR to at least FAIL

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From https://github.com/uutils/coreutils-tracking/blob/main/gnu-full-result.json, here are the remaining GNU test cases that are marked as ERROR (as opposed to FAIL, PASS, or SKIP): - [x] tests/cp/cp-parents.sh - see #3332, #3894, #4071 -...

dd: correct rendering of SI and IEC byte counts

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Adjust the rendering of the concise byte counts in both SI and IEC units to better match the behavior of GNU dd. Before this commit, $ head -c 1024 /dev/zero...

mkdir: permissions when using -m differ from GNU

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When using `-m` option to `mkdir`, the permissions of the created directory differ from those of GNU mkdir. I think this may have something to do with the umask. GNU...

split: implement round-robin arg to --number

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~*Help wanted!* This change was previously merged in pull request #3205. Unfortunately, it resulted in an issue with the GNU test suite; see issue #3268. The change was subsequently reverted...

dd: unexpectedly consumes all bytes from stdin

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Executive summary: Setup: ``` cargo build -p uu_dd echo 'abcd' > infile ``` GNU dd: ``` $ (dd bs=1 skip=1 count=0 status=none && cat -) < infile bcd ``` uutils...

Here are some test cases that we would need to satisfy in order to match the behavior of GNU `seq` when given various invalid format string templates: ```rust #[test] fn...

tac: should fail when stdin is closed but doesn't

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The `uutils` version of `tac` disagrees with GNU `tac` in the case where `stdin` is closed on the command line: GNU prints an error message to `stderr` and returns exit...

Usage errors from clap produce exit status 2 but GNU programs produce exit status 1

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This is the same issue I reported previously in #2951, but I noticed that this is a general problem with all programs. The problem is that usage errors that arise...

Environment: Ubuntu 20.04.4, coreutils v8.30, `sh` links to `dash` The uutils version of timeout fails to kill the child process when it is given as `sh -c "..."`. GNU timeout:...