On 2005-11-01 15:15:43 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > With coreutils 5.92, you don't need _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your > environment to use "head -5". "head -5" now has the traditional > meaning regardless of _POSIX2_VERSION's value. This change came about > becase of clarifications to the standard issued January 2005 by the > Austin Group. Please see the NEWS file for details. > > You may still need to set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 if you are running > older coreutils versions.
On this point, I don't know what's the best way, as I'm using the same rc files on different machines, that may have an older version. I can either use _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 all the time or detect the coreutils version in my .zshenv file, perhaps by parsing the value of "$(command true --version)". -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
