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Re: Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parame
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter |
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Fri, 15 Sep 2006 05:32:19 -0600 |
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According to Bruce Baxter on 9/14/2006 10:42 PM:
> The GNU coreutils version 5.97 (included with Fedora Core 5 in RPM
> coreutils-5.97-1.2) returns an error, for example:
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> tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory
This is not a bug in coreutils, but a consequence of your choice
(inherited from Fedora Core 5's choice) of POSIX compliance. This is
becoming a FAQ; see my reply on this same subject from last week:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00035.html
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