On 2005-12-02 14:07:45 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Sorry, I was wrong. It _is_ standards-conformant. What I should have
> said was: it is ambiguous; different standards prescribe different
> behavior. I base this on the upstream text that I quoted.
OK.
> For the record, can you please clarify this issue? Was the statement
> in NEWS that I quoted earlier incorrect? What is a correct variant
> of that statement?
It is incorrect anyway. "tail -c4" doesn't work on Solaris, so that
it is not OK for portable scripts:
craffe:~> echo abcdef | /bin/tail -c4
usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
tail [+/-[n][l][r|f]] [file]
zsh: done echo abcdef |
zsh: exit 2 /bin/tail -c4
Here one needs to do:
craffe:~> echo abcdef | /bin/tail -4c
def
Solaris sucks.
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