URL:
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Summary: confusing description of -c option
Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 25 Nov 2008 11:38:19 PM UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
-c option's info documentation states:
`-c BYTES'
`--bytes=BYTES'
Output the last BYTES bytes, instead of final lines. However, if
N starts with a `+', start printing with the Nth byte from the
start of each file, instead of from the end. Appending `b'
multiplies BYTES by 512, `kB' by 1000, `K' by 1024, `MB' by
1000*1000, `M' by 1024*1024, `GB' by 1000*1000*1000, `GB' by
1024*1024*1024, and so on for `T', `P', `E', `Z', and `Y'.
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it is not clear in here what "N" stands for?
Maybe the author wanted to write "BYTES" instead of "N"?
this is in file [coreutils.git] / doc / coreutils.texi
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