Andreas Barth wrote: > Ok, what is the best place to discuss this? The GNU coreutils home page is here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ The best place to discuss upstream GNU coreutils issues is on the bug-coreutils@gnu.org mailing list. You do not need to be subscribed to post there but I will encourage it anyway. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils This topic has been discussed at length upstream previously. The mailing list archives are located here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/ Sarching for "POSIX 1003.1-2001 tail" should give quite a few related hits on previous discussions of this. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]