[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
> I just expected GNU tail -3 to behave the same as GNU head -3, since
> GNU is supposed to do things right :).
It depends on what you mean by "right", but I think GNU head -3
doesn't behave "right" either, if one expects options like "-3" to
"just work". F
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
> In coreutils 5.93, with _POSIX2_VERSION=0 (and POSIXLY_CORRECT unset),
> touch foo bar
> tail -3 foo bar
> yields the error
> tail: invalid option -- 3
> Both `tail -3 foo' and `head -3 foo bar' are ok.
Well, that's a long story.
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