The motive is POSIX conformance. Please see
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00085.html and
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00087.html
--Steve Augart
Stephen Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: -n (number)
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?
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