Eric Blake writes: > > On 03/11/2011 10:03 AM, Roger N. Clark wrote: > > > > > This works on HP-UX. > > Since we're already dealing with two GNU extensions, I don't see why we > can't be nice and make the shorter syntax work the way HP-UX is doing > things. Patches welcome! >
Really? tail -N of multiple files used to work with GNU tail, before someone broke it[1]. I have a local patch that I've been using since the breakage first bit me. Before the breakage, a comment explicitly stated that multiple filename arguments were allowed. That comment was replaced with one explicitly stating the opposite. Looks like an intentional feature removal to me. Patches welcome? How about a revert? [1] commit 99f09784cc98732a440de86bb99a46f11f7355d8 -- Alan Curry
