[bug #24934] confusing description of -c option

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                 Summary: confusing description of -c option
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 25 Nov 2008 11:38:19 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

-c option's info documentation states:
`-c BYTES'
`--bytes=BYTES'
     Output the last BYTES bytes, instead of final lines.  However, if
     N starts with a `+', start printing with the Nth byte from the
     start of each file, instead of from the end.  Appending `b'
     multiplies BYTES by 512, `kB' by 1000, `K' by 1024, `MB' by
     1000*1000, `M' by 1024*1024, `GB' by 1000*1000*1000, `GB' by
     1024*1024*1024, and so on for `T', `P', `E', `Z', and `Y'.
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it is not clear in here what "N" stands for?
Maybe the author wanted to write "BYTES" instead of "N"?

this is in file [coreutils.git] / doc / coreutils.texi




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