Hello, I think I found a bug in the GNU head, from textutils version 2.0. For some reason, head has trouble parsing numbers with a leading 0; and primarily the numbers "08" and "09". For instance:
$ for x in `seq -f '%02g' 1 10` ; \ > do cat /etc/passwd | head -n $x | tail -n 1 ; \ > done root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin: daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin: adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/log: lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd: sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown head: 08: number of lines is so large that it is not representable head: 09: number of lines is so large that it is not representable news:x:9:13:news:/usr/lib/news: I have replicated this bug on x86 linux and little-endian MIPS linux. Thanks, Nik -- Nik Reiman // [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://www.aboleo.net _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
