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Unicode characters in tail and head
From: |
Richard . Wossal |
Subject: |
Unicode characters in tail and head |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:10:09 +0100 |
Hello!
My question is the following:
Will there be a '-m' or '--chars' option for tail and head? Because, when
processing Unicode, the -c (--bytes) option isn't very useful.
Well, of course, it does what it should do - but I think it was designed with
byte==char in mind (which is probably why it was called "-c").
Now I believe that tail/head should be able to process unicode, just like
wc does already - Unix (or Not Unix, for that matter) finally is all about
text, not bytes, right?
With kind regards,
Richard Wossal
PS: I did some searching on this topic but I found no answer - if this was
asked and answered before, I appologize for wasting your time.
--
Richard
- Unicode characters in tail and head,
Richard . Wossal <=