Stephen Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For years the option on tail was tail -number, now all of a sudden > it's tail -n (number) > is this a bug, if not why was it changed?
This is covered in the coreutils manual; look for _POSIX2_VERSION. Perhaps your distribution provider changed the version of POSIX that they conform to? For more details, please see the following threads: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00087.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-11/msg00028.html _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
