On Friday 15 September 2006 10:48, mwoehlke wrote: > Just for the record, I was hit with this too; when I built 5.97 across > our supported platforms (about nine combinations of hardware and OS), a > script using the old '-#'/'+#' syntax broke. I added '-n' to it, but > that in turn caused it to break with several non-GNU versions of > head/tail that don't recognize '-n'; IOW, it broke compatibility with > non-GNU versions of these utilities.
wrong; this is not a GNU issue ... go complain to the POSIX people who write the specs that coreutils [correctly] follows did you read the link Eric posted ? > I haven't re-tested with 6.x, but for now what I've been doing is > sticking with '-n' and requiring this particular script to use GNU > head/tail. After all, it's *SO* much easier to write "portable" scripts > when all the platforms you run the script on have not only the same GNU > toolchain, but the same *versions* of GNU tools :-). you might be able to get away with using sed in some places ... `head -10` == `head -n 10` == `sed -n 1,+9p` -mike
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