Bug 551476 - an obsolete option '+' is described in the Japanese man page of the tail command
Summary: an obsolete option '+' is described in the Japanese man page of the tail command
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man-pages-ja
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-30 22:03 UTC by Jeff Bastian
Modified: 2010-01-19 01:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 20100115-1.fc12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 551471
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Last Closed: 2010-01-19 01:00:31 UTC
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Description Jeff Bastian 2009-12-30 22:03:07 UTC
Description of problem:
The Japanese tail(1) man page still includes a description for the obsolete '+N' option to start tail'ing the file on line N.  Older versions of tail allowed you to run
    tail +5 file.txt
to start reading file.txt on line 5.  This is ambiguous and obsolete and has been replaced with the -n option:
    tail -n +5 file.txt

The English man page has a section describing how this is obsolete:
   '_POSIX2_VERSION' COMPATIBILITY ISSUES:
       On  older  systems, the leading '-' can be replaced by '+' in the obso-
       lete option syntax with the same meaning as  in  counts,  and  obsolete
       usage  overrides  normal  usage  when  the two conflict. ...

However, the Japanese man page indicates this is still valid:
   書式
       tail  [<-|+>COUNTOPTIONS] ...
   ...
   オプション
       <-|+>COUNTOPTIONS
              このオプションは最初に指定した場合に限って認識される。 COUNT  は
              10 進数の数値。単位を表す文字 (‘b’, ‘k’, ‘m’) を後置したり (それ
              ぞれの意味は ‘-c’ のものと同じ)、行単位のカウントを指定する  ‘l’
              を 後置したり、他のオプション文字 (‘cqv’) を後置したりできる。何
              も文字が後置されなかった場合は ‘l’ が指定されたのと同じことに な
              る。短いオプション形式 - と + は推奨されない。


Please update the Japanese tail(1) man page to indicate the '+N' syntax is obsolete.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-pages-ja-20060815-11.el5.noarch

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
2. man 1 tail
  
Actual results:
man page indicates 'tail +N' is valid syntax

Expected results:
should instead describe 'tail -n +N'

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-01-18 07:35:14 UTC
man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc12

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-01-18 07:41:20 UTC
man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-01-19 01:00:26 UTC
man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-01-19 01:00:45 UTC
man-pages-ja-20100115-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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