Bug 199741
Summary: | tail(1) fails to parse plus-sign argument, reports error | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Rabson <tla> |
Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5 | CC: | meyering, tla |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2006-07-24 09:13:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
David Rabson
2006-07-21 17:58:19 UTC
Correction to procedure to reproduce bug: /bin/echo -e "bad\ngood" | tail +2 -- The correct syntax for this is "tail -n +2 f". You can get the old syntax (which does not conform to the current POSIX spec) back like this: export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 See the info page aobut this: info coreutils "Standards Conformance" |