close 30504
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2018-02-17 3:37 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
There is a backward-compatibility problem with supporting "tail -2" with
any number of extra arguments, since (for example) "tail -2c 20" has a
different meaning in traditional "tail" than you might think. To
There is a backward-compatibility problem with supporting "tail -2" with any
number of extra arguments, since (for example) "tail -2c 20" has a different
meaning in traditional "tail" than you might think. To avoid confusion, "tail
-2" is not encouraged when using non-traditional features (in
searching archive with "invalid context" gets to "bug#8231: Bug in the linux
command: tail"
I read the exchanges from 2011 and see where it went, but gripe that now I have
to type extra characters to invoke it.
Perhaps I should fear that "head" will eventually be "broken" also.
Attempting to
