bug#8231: Bug in the linux command: tail

[Alan Curry]

Eric Blake writes:
> 
> On 03/11/2011 10:03 AM, Roger N. Clark wrote:
> 
> >
> > This works on HP-UX.
> 
> Since we're already dealing with two GNU extensions, I don't see why we
> can't be nice and make the shorter syntax work the way HP-UX is doing
> things.  Patches welcome!
> 

Really? tail -N of multiple files used to work with GNU tail, before someone
broke it[1]. I have a local patch that I've been using since the breakage
first bit me.

Before the breakage, a comment explicitly stated that multiple filename
arguments were allowed. That comment was replaced with one explicitly stating
the opposite. Looks like an intentional feature removal to me. Patches
welcome? How about a revert?

[1] commit 99f09784cc98732a440de86bb99a46f11f7355d8

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Alan Curry