On 2021/10/10 14:26, Scott Cheloha wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:31:22PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Bryan Steele <bry...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:18:55PM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > > did anyone ever use it this way, or are you getting ahead of yourself. > > > > > > > > I don't understand the question. > > > > > > I've only ever seen it used with -count as the first argument, can't > > > say it's every occoured to me to type "head file -10". > > That is not what I proposed. Reread my first message: > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=163388435528203&w=2
i.e. "head -2 -3 somefile" is taken as -3. This is unportable syntax, GNU head doesn't support it, current OpenBSD head doesn't support it, and it doesn't seem to be really meaningful. Additionally I don't think we've ever had a problem with this in ports. I think we would be better served to keep things as-is and not support it. Seems that FreeBSD is the odd one out here?
