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Re: Suggestion about tail
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion about tail |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:07:14 +0100 |
"Bert Wesarg" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 10:41 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Good idea.
>> > tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May.
>>
>> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53
> It looks like there was a typo in this commit:
>
> address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{GB} by 1024*1024*1024,
Good catch!
Here's how I've fixed it:
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f37a4ef..0cc95ce 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2008-02-07 Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
+ Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.
+ * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
+ Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
+
* NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and
tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and
so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index bb536b3..2a47910 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Bernhard Baehr address@hidden
Bernhard Gabler address@hidden
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer address@hidden
Bert Deknuydt address@hidden
+Bert Wesarg address@hidden
Bill Peters address@hidden
Bjorn Helgaas address@hidden
Bob McCracken address@hidden
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index aca5fbd..dfab040 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ hexadecimal; otherwise, if it begins with @samp{0}, in
octal; otherwise,
in decimal. Appending @samp{b} multiplies @var{bytes} by 512,
@samp{kB} by 1000, @samp{K} by 1024,
@samp{MB} by 1000*1000, @samp{M} by 1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{GB} by 1024*1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{G} by 1024*1024*1024,
and so on for @samp{T}, @samp{P}, @samp{E}, @samp{Z}, and @samp{Y}.
@item -N @var{bytes}
@@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ print all but the last @var{n} bytes of each file.
Appending @samp{b} multiplies @var{n} by 512,
@samp{kB} by 1000, @samp{K} by 1024,
@samp{MB} by 1000*1000, @samp{M} by 1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{GB} by 1024*1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{G} by 1024*1024*1024,
and so on for @samp{T}, @samp{P}, @samp{E}, @samp{Z}, and @samp{Y}.
@itemx -n @var{n}
@@ -2590,7 +2590,7 @@ However, if @var{n} starts with a @samp{+}, start
printing with the
Appending @samp{b} multiplies @var{bytes} by 512,
@samp{kB} by 1000, @samp{K} by 1024,
@samp{MB} by 1000*1000, @samp{M} by 1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{GB} by 1024*1024*1024,
address@hidden by 1000*1000*1000, @samp{G} by 1024*1024*1024,
and so on for @samp{T}, @samp{P}, @samp{E}, @samp{Z}, and @samp{Y}.
@item -f
--
1.5.4.35.g3cfc