begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:51:57 +0100 Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed this about a week ago:
>
> head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1'
> Try `head --help' for more information.
>
> and tail seems to do the same thing...
> this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including
> configure scripts to build packages...
>
> why is this obsoleted?
POSIX compliance.
> And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a
> warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops.
it's been a warning about it for some time, in the documentation afair
("deprecated..." ).
if you go completely whacked on it, I'd suggest reinstalling the older
package 's tail/head until you've waited out the rest of the world + pet
+ old projects to fix this.
//Spider
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