Re: Maybe a bug!

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> Why does head accept die option -1 and tail does not, in this same 
> context?

Please see this FAQ entry regarding arguments to tail:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails

I'm not sure why head and tail are not behaving the same way, but 
generally that form of the syntax is not encouraged.


Cheers,
Phil