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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
The version of tail currently in stable supports the following:
tail -1 file1 file2 file3
Such syntax is also supported in head, both in stable and unstable.
Unfortunately the current unstable release of tail breaks when this is
attempted, complaining:
% tail -1 file1 file2 file3
tail: invalid option -- 1
Try `tail --help' for more information.
Note that this occurs with any -n specified. Also note that the syntax
works perfectly fine with a single file; but it breaks with multiple
files.
Charles
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.39-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 6.10-1
The error message is now "invalid context", which might be a little more
clear. In general, though, using -n 1 rather than -1 is correct.
Mike Stone
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