$ tail --version tail (textutils) 2.1 Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ tail -c 1,2 tail: 1,2: is so large that it is not representable $ tail -c foo tail: foo: invalid number of bytes Shouldn't that 1,2 give also "invalid numer of bytes" in stead of "too large"? A user just asked me why "tail -c 60,095,344" doesn't work. _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
