bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29/11/15 23:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 11/29/2015 12:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> I remember having slight reservations about K too.
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/msg00279.html
>>> Nothing much better comes to mind.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> In that discussion, also longer alternatives like COUNT or CNT were
>> mentioned.  If we decide to go that way, I'd favor NUM among those
>> suggestions, as it may also be used as is in translations.
>>
>> While at it, I'm wondering if it would make sense to emphasize
>> the optional plus ('+') for tail in the first column, similar as
>> for the minus ('-') for head (although only for 'man head', but
>> not in the Texi documentation):
>>
>>   $ src/head --help | grep -A2 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
>>     -c, --bytes=[-]K         print the first K bytes of each file;
>>                                with the leading '-', print all but the last
>>                                K bytes of each file
>>     -n, --lines=[-]K         print the first K lines instead of the first 10;
>>                                with the leading '-', print all but the last
>>                                K lines of each file
>>
>>   $ src/tail --help | grep -A1 -- '^[ ]*-[cn]'
>>     -c, --bytes=K            output the last K bytes; or use -c +K to output
>>                                bytes starting with the Kth of each file
>>   --
>>     -n, --lines=K            output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
>>                                or use -n +K to output starting with the Kth
>>
>> Is there some GNU standard for this?  I couldn't find much.
>
> +1 for [+]NUM

Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.
I guess we could change s/with the Kth/with line NUM/