Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After 10 years of being merely `obsolescent', head -N has finally > been officially declared to be `obsolete'.
This doesn't respond to Ari's argument, though: given that GNU utilities already go beyond the standard's requirements by supporting long options, why not also preserve -n/+n arguments as extensions, especially since so much existing code relies on them? AFAICT, the only defense of long options is that even though they don't follow the standard, they are useful. Isn't the same true of -n/+n? paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
