* has unexpected output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tail: invalid option -- 1
What version of tail are you using?
tail --version
If it is older than 5.90 please upgrade. Your report implies that you
are probably running 5.2.1 from 2004. This behavior was changed in
coreutils 5.90 in 2005
[~/coreutils-6.10/src] % ./tail -1 ~/z.1
this is z.1
- - Steve
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Bob Proulx wrote:
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:01:47 -0700
From: Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tail -1 * has unexpected output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tail
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Hey.
'tail -1 *' used to output one line of every file specified.
Now, it outputs
tail: invalid option -- 1
How to reproduce:
create two files: z.1, z.2 containing one line each (aka, this is z.1,
this is z.2), then:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tail: invalid option -- 1
What version of tail are you using?
tail --version
If it is older than 5.90 please upgrade. Your report implies that you
are probably running 5.2.1 from 2004. This behavior was changed in
coreutils 5.90 in 2005. The current stable release
