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Re: bug in tail
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: bug in tail |
Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2007 15:47:45 +0200 |
"Thomas Heine" <address@hidden> wrote:
> contrary to documentation and old versions the following commands
> don't work any longer for new versions of tail, as present in newer
> versions of Debian and Novell linux:
>
> tail -1 *.inp (*.inp gives a list of some files) gives an error (tail:
> invalid option -- 1).
...
Thanks for the report, but this aspect of tail depends on the
version of tail you're using and possibly on your environment settings.
Using the latest (coreutils-6.9) version, with no setting for
_POSIX2_VERSION in your environment, it should work just fine:
$ env -u _POSIX2_VERSION -- /usr/bin/tail -1 /etc/issue
$ tail --version|head -n1
tail (GNU coreutils) 6.9
- bug in tail, Thomas Heine, 2007/05/08
- Re: bug in tail,
Jim Meyering <=