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From: |
Julian Wald |
Subject: |
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Date: |
Fri Dec 6 20:56:08 2002 |
Hi,
I think I've found a small bug in "head". If you issue
head -n 09 file
head: 09: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
I assume this is an octal conversion bug (ie 09 is not a valid octal
number), but the manual page doesn't mention that octal is a valid
input base for the -n parameter. The problem was discovered by me in a
script that extracted two digits as a file list count (01-99).
The version info is:
head (GNU textutils) 2.0
This behaviour is reproducible under Slackware Linux 8.1 and OpenBSD
3.1 (and presumably anything else using the same version of head)
Best wishes
-Julian