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Re: tail question
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: tail question |
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Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:58:05 -0500 |
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> The 'tail -1' behavior change has been around for a couple of years
> anyway: it predates coreutils 4.5.1, the first version of coreutils
> proper. It didn't become much of an issue, though, until systems
> appeared that claimed conformance to the 2001 POSIX standard. This
> started happening a few months ago.
This is unclear to me. It sounds like what you mean is that the
*spec* change predates 4.5.1, but the actually-exhibited *behavior*
change is only a few months old. Is that right?
paul