On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:16:09AM -0700, Don Cragun wrote: > The standard does not currently specify a way to count (multi-byte) > characters even though this means tail output may start or end in the > middle of a multi-byte character when using the -c option.
How... painful. Of course, for fixed width encodings and UTF-8/16 it should be possible to automatically adjust the -c argument value so it starts at the start of a character, but that would require another argument. Fortunately I bet tail -c ... is fairly uncommon. Nico --
