[email protected] wrote: > Man you guys are bananas using "K" here: > > -c, --bytes=[-]K > print the first K bytes of each file; with the leading `-', > print all but the last K bytes of each file
It was much worse when we used "N" there. People were often getting confused by it. Here is the thread where we changed it. Here are the highlights: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00124.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00200.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00278.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00280.html > Why can't you use "X" etc. etc.? Hey, I jokingly suggested 'y'. :-) But more seriously there is no perfect letter. > It took 15 minutes for me to figure out that you weren't talking about > kilobytes. Yes one only has to read down further. But kindly fix it anyway. Bob
