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Re: Suggestion about tail
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Suggestion about tail |
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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:31:10 +0100 |
Marc Perkel <address@hidden> wrote:
> When using tail with the -c option it would be handy to be able to
> specify not just bytes but K, M, and G bytes
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> Example:
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> tail -c 5K should output the last 5K bytes.
Good idea.
tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May.
The stable release with that change is coreutils-6.10:
$ seq 400|tail -c 1K|wc -c
1024