Re: Feature Requests

[James Youngman]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Marc Perkel <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to ask again (you liked the idea but I'm not seeing it implemented)
> that on the utilities head ad tail that the -c option be not only in bytes
> but also in k,m,g as in 10k 200m 2g ....

Already done!   You should upgrade:

$ for util in head tail; do for n in 1 1K; do echo $util: $n: $(head
-c $n  /usr/share/dict/words | wc -c); done; $util --version| head -1;
done
head: 1: 1
head: 1K: 1024
head (GNU coreutils) 6.10
tail: 1: 1
tail: 1K: 1024
tail (GNU coreutils) 6.10

James.