Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If your head program accepts -c39, I would call this a bug. > > It's a long-standing feature of GNU head:
And it's not a bug. POSIX has never specified the behavior of "head -c39", and GNU head is allowed to treat it like "head -39c" if it chooses, as an extension. Also, POSIX 1003.2-1992 required support for "tail -39c" with similar semantics, so it's quite plausible to support this extension from a consistency point of view. (In this message I'm setting "Reply-to" to [email protected] since this part of the thread really belongs there.) _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
