Re: nl: line number decrement

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/10/2020 14:16, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 25/10/2020 08:39, KOBAYASHI Takashi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wrote a little patch for nl(1). Could you merge this mainstream?
> > It reduces the line number with the "--line-increment(-i)" option and
> > negative value. The "--starting-line-number(-v)" option has been allowed
> > negative value but "-i" has not until now. It should be unified.

> This makes sense for consistency.
>
> I'll also add another commit along the lines off the following,
> to only fail when we need to output the overflowed number,
> and add some tests around these limits.

I'll apply the attached two patches later.

thanks again,
Pádraig

nl-decrement.patch
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nl-overflow.patch
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