On 11/28/2015 09:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 11/28/2015 09:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> On both the head and tail man pages, >> can you kindly not use "K"? >> >> -c, --bytes=K >> output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output bytes >> starting >> with the Kth of each file >> >> K bytes sounds like kilobytes. >> >> Yes if one reads carefully it doesn't. >> >> But instead if you used X, then one needn't read carefully and could >> still read the page! >> >> Or how about B? B bytes. Sounds even better than X. >> >> Anyway it (K) appears several places on both man pages. > > Thanks. > Another good spot. > I'd rather use 'N' as many users would more likely see this as > 'N'umeric argument. The following does that ... plus also switching > 2 other placeholders to avoid overlapping with the explanation regarding > the suffixes K, M, G, T, etc.
oops, Eric applied the opposite patch 6 years ago: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=v7.4-18-gc433334 The archives (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/) start 2010, so does anyone remember why K would be less ambigous than N? Have a nice day, Berny
