Package: coreutils Version: 9.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The V7 (&a.) flag format is, nominally tail [ ±number[lbc][fr] ] [ file ] (https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.1cBSD/usr/man/man1/tail.1). An empty number field is equivalent to a zero (the documentation is a meme, but cf. third-party analysis at https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2023/06/30/msg013953.html or, well, just run v7: # echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > f # tail +c f abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz # tail +10c f jklmnopqrstuvwxyz ). However, coreutils tail somehow takes it to mean... 10? (Thus, coreutils tail +c f is the same as V7 tail +10c.) Consider not doing that. Best, наб -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.1-3 ii libattr1 1:2.5.1-4 ii libc6 2.36-9 ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1 ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b6 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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