Under Mac OS X, with tail 5.92 installed by DarwinPorts: prunille:~> echo abcd > blah prunille:~> /opt/local/bin/gtail -c 2 blah /opt/local/bin/gtail: cannot open `2' for reading: No such file or directory ==> blah <== abcd zsh: exit 1 /opt/local/bin/gtail -c 2 blah prunille:~[1]> /opt/local/bin/gtail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 5.92 [...]
"info tail" still says: -c, --bytes=N output the last N bytes and AFAIK, this -c option is a POSIX requirement. I had no problems with tail from the coreutils 5.2.1. This is a regression. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils