Re: tail -1 * has unexpected output

[steve+dated+1205686402 . 816dc9]

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I'm running version 5.97:


(2) address@hidden Tue 10:48am  [~] % tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 5.97
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The weird thing is that 'tail -1 z.1' works, but 'tail -1 z.1 z.2' errors. 
If the form "-1" is depreciated, shouldn't it fail for the single file 
invocation also?

I'll grab version 6.10 and check it out.  Thanks.

- - Steve

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:01:47 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: tail -1 * has unexpected output
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> > tail: invalid option -- 1
>
> What version of tail are you using?
>
>  tail --version
>
> If it is older than 5.90 please upgrade.  Your report implies that you
> are probably running 5.2.1 from 2004.  This behavior was changed in
> coreutils 5.90 in 2005.  The current stable release version is 6.10.
>
> Here is the latest release information:
>
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2008-01/msg00001.html
>
> Bob

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