-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Wright wrote: > I hope this is the right place to post this question.I'm running > Puppy Linux 4.0 and have run into a problem with their version of > tail not supporting the --byte option. I have to use -c instead. Is > this because it's not a standard GNU version of tail? Is there a > version of GNU tail that doesn't support the -c option? I ask because > I want to know if it's safe to switch from the --byte option to the > -c option in a script and still have it be portable across all > distributions.Thanks.
Should be pretty portable, -c is POSIX, and, judging from the rationale section, historical as well. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIsc5j7M8hyUobTrERAgjPAJ9GCf6RDLFRBQ89wTc9IwLW8ohGjQCfWHqu QZbC2AdkbksKjk38V+N488s= =2jU8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
