On 03/11/2011 03:14 PM, Alan Curry wrote: > tail -N of multiple files used to work with GNU tail, before someone > broke it
I checked in that change, and it was to make "tail" compatible with both older BSD practice and with POSIX 1002.1-2001. Any further changes in this area should retain compatibility with older BSD and with POSIX. It's not as easy as it looks, I'm afraid. A simple workaround (much simpler than trying to modify "tail" :-) is to use "tail -n10 A B" instead of "tail -10 A B".
