Re: [Bug-datamash] negative modes

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:11:57PM -0300, Renan Valieris wrote:
> Hello, looks like datamash doesn't deal with negative modes correctly:
> 
> $ datamash --version
> datamash (GNU datamash) 1.4
> 
> $ echo 1 | datamash mode 1
> 1
> 
> $ echo -1 | datamash mode 1
> 1.844674407371e+19
> 
> 
> looks like the code assumes mode is always positive and the number is
> stored as unsigned (!?)

Thanks for the report (and sorry for the long delay).

This is now fixed at:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/datamash.git/commit/?id=6f6748686e56b5ae4daa9112da0ef232c5ce86ed

will be available in version 1.5


Thanks,
 - Assaf