Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When using tail with the -c option it would be handy to be able to > specify not just bytes but K, M, and G bytes > > Example: > > tail -c 5K should output the last 5K bytes.
Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. The stable release with that change is coreutils-6.10: $ seq 400|tail -c 1K|wc -c 1024 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
