Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes: > > - -n, --lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last % d;\n\ > > - or use +N to output lines starting with the Nth\n\ > > + -n, --lines=CNT output the last CNT lines, instead of the last % d;\n\ > > + or use +CNT to skip the first CNT-1 lines\n\ > > --max-unchanged-stats=N\n\ > > CNT doesn't read too well :) > How about COUNT or NUM?
COUNT runs into length problems - adding 4 characters per instance builds up fast. I'll try with NUM instead. As it is, I already had to rephrase things since "nth" is a word, but "count'th" and "num'th" are not. > What about the texi docs? They already used @var{count} rather than @var{n} in some instances, but I will go ahead and sweep these to make them all consistent. > Would one change head -n docs also for consistency? Sure, sounds good. > What about the other instances of N in tail --help? For --max-unchanged-stats, I actually WANT to keep N. After all, you can't use --max-unchanged-stats=1k, nor can you use --max-unchanged-stats=+2 to mean start at the second item. For all other instances of N in tail, my first patch already caught them. I'll work on respinning this patch to cover more territory. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils